PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes -Necessity And Sufficiency, Fetus, Homo Sapiens
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Want questions of moral guiltiness (ex: asks about the person who committed the crime) to match those of legal guiltiness (ex: asks judge and jury) Standard arguments for and against moralities of abortion. Legal status of abortion in canada: only developed country that has no laws concerning abortion (no legal restrictions) Moral debates about abortion tends to hinge on the moral status of fetus. Human being biological concept; homo sapiens. Person moral concept; worthy of moral regards for some reasons or another (philosophers disagree among different reasons) ex: consciousness, ability to feel pain, ability for reasoning, capacity for autonomy, communication, conception of oneself. Fallacy of qualification concerns using the same term in two different senses, arguing against the following premise that it is not valid. Premises of abortion (pro-life, conservative: killing of innocent human beings is wrong, a fetus is a human being, therefore it is wrong to kill fetus.
