abortion is not ethically justifiable Don Marquis Different perspectives analyzed by Don Marquis The R eproductive F reedom perspective The I nnocent ID: 807564
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Slide1
The deliberately induced abortion is not ethically justifiable
Don
Marquis
Slide2Different perspectives analyzed by Don Marquis:The Reproductive Freedom perspective
The
Innocent Human-Life perspectiveWarren’s Personhood perspectiveThe Pro-Attitude perspective The Ideal Desire perspectiveThomson’s Defense of Abortion Rights
Don
Marquis
’
perspective
Future of Value
view
Slide3The Reproductive Freedom perspectiveDefends women’s right to abortion
Unwanted
children are less likely to be lovedObjections:Life begins at conceptionReligious reasons
The
product
of
conception
consists
in
cells
that
engage
in
metabolism
, an
integrated
biological
unit
which
is
certainly
living.
Slide4Syllogism:All innocent human beings have the right to life.All human fetuses are human beings.Therefore, all human fetus have the right to life.
Singer’s
criticism:Biological property of being a member of our species does not have any moral significanceOver-commitment objection: human beings that are irreversibly unconscious have the right to life (they don’t). The first premise is arbitrary
and false
The
Innocent
Human-Life
perspective
Slide5Person’s right to lifePerson in terms of consciousness, reasoning, self-motivated activity, the capacity to communicate and the presence of self concepts.Fetuses
are
not persons (not able to immediately exercise these capacities).Objections:Fetuses have a deep natural capacity for consciousness, reasoning or self-motivation It fails to incorporate our values
into
our
accont
of having the right to life or into the wrongness of killing.
Warren’s
Personhood
perspective
Slide6The right to life is based on the desire to liveFetuses do not desire to live Objection:Individuals can have the actual desire to live, even when they are not
thinking
about it or when they are asleep or unconscious.The Pro-Attitude perspective
Slide7An ideal desire is a desire and individual does have or would have is he/she were rational and fully informed.This
perspective is structured in the following way:Desire to live right to lifeFetuses lack a concept of self as a continuing subject of experienceFetuses lack the right to lifeBut..
If
you
lack a future of value, all of the information in the world and perfect
rational
evaluation
will not yield an ideal desire to live.
The Ideal Desire
perspective
Slide8If an individual has a future of value and she will value her life if she does not die, it is
wrong
to kill her. Killing another human being is wrong because it deprives her of a future of value.The Future of Value view
The
P-Future
of Value
view
What
is morally
significant
is a future personal life.It recognizes future personhood (one’s potential). Abortion is
seriously
wrong
Slide9You have the right when pregnant to detach yourself from the fetusThe responsability objection: in a pregnancy not due to rape the pregnant woman has
acquired responsibility for there being another human being dependent on her.Thomson’s Defense of Abortion Rights
Slide10Birth is morally irrilevant since it is little more than a change in spatial location.It is in the nature of a human fetus to possess a present
potential
to have a future that will be valuable to her.Deliberately ending the life of another human being is wrong.Conclusion