Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Abortion-Rights Movements, Fertility Medication, Human Reproduction
27 Jun 2018
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Chapter 4
Human being: individuak with human DNA or speciļ¬c physiological characteristics;
human brain, CV system or individual with psychological existence speciļ¬cally the ability to
know that it exists and has interests
a child becomes a human being when it has proceeded in a living state from the body
of the mother, whether or not it has breathed, has an independent circulation system,
the naval string is severed
Persistent vegetative state: a condition which individuals higher order brain function is
absent due to trauma or lack of oxygen, resulting in an irreversible coma or brain
death. do not meet requirements
Moral person: an individual with future value
Abortion: intentional termination of a pregnancy at any stage during the fetusās gestational
development
conservative: conserve life
Warren: Interests of pregnant women will always override non-existant interest of fetus
Liberal postion on fetus: fetus has no moral rights pregnant women have have all moral
rights,
allow abortion between the ļ¬rst two trimesters gv
Moderate arguments: abortions are permissible in some instances and sometimes they
are not
Thomas: maternal responsibility for pregnancy; what right to life does the fetus have
does not have the right to demand anything
negative right to life: requiring the fetus not be killed unjustly
Positive right: rights to the provision of some item or service for example the right to receive
an elementary school education or health care
Negative right: rightt to non-interference, according to which others refrain from doing
something to or interfering with an individual
direct threat: permissible abortion
steps to avoid pregnancy that fail = abortion is permissible
no steps to avoid pregnancy = no abortion
Sherwin: critizes for wrongly considering abortion terms of fetal and moral status
fetusās are only signiļ¬cant through indirect relational status
moral personhood misinterprets what is involved in persons
woman is the only one to bear the responsibilities
Seymour + Mahowald: treatments being forced on pregnant women for the well being of the
Document Summary
Persistent vegetative state: a condition which individuals higher order brain function is absent due to trauma or lack of oxygen, resulting in an irreversible coma or brain death. do not meet requirements. Abortion: intentional termination of a pregnancy at any stage during the fetus"s gestational development conservative: conserve life. Warren: interests of pregnant women will always override non-existant interest of fetus. Liberal postion on fetus: fetus has no moral rights pregnant women have have all moral rights, allow abortion between the rst two trimesters gv. Moderate arguments: abortions are permissible in some instances and sometimes they are not. Thomas: maternal responsibility for pregnancy; what right to life does the fetus have does not have the right to demand anything negative right to life: requiring the fetus not be killed unjustly. Positive right: rights to the provision of some item or service for example the right to receive an elementary school education or health care.
