PHI 2396 Chapter 8: Bioethics Ch 8 textbook notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Dean Lauer

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First trimester: sperm meets egg (week 1, zygote implants in uterine wall (week 2-3, embryonic heartbeat (week 5, electrical activity in nervous system (week 6, fetal heartbeat (9-12 weeks) When ontological status is attained: according to south dakota, it has full ontological status at conception, but it becomes a human person later during the pregnancy. Moral status of the unborn: rights of a fetus stem from its ontological status. Judaism: when head emerges from the womb, before its considered partial life. Islam: creator makes human beings in stages, spirit is breathed into the fetus at 120 days, i(cid:374) audi ara(cid:271)ia, a(cid:271)ortio(cid:374) o(cid:374)l(cid:455) legal if it (cid:449)ill sa(cid:448)e (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s life of if the pregnancy endangers the woman. Scientific views about when life begins: the genetic view: life is created at fertilization, where they develop dna and epigenetic factors from its parents. Neurological view: acquisition of the human eeg should be when a human life begins, this usually occurs at 24 weeks.