English Question

1.Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Being Human (BH), Being Like Human (BLH), Potentiality (P), Evolving Value (EV), or Actuality (A) Criterion.

Since this fetus though human does not have the potential to develop the abilities of a person, for it has no upper brain, it does not have what is a necessary basis for rights.

2.The Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling on abortion asserts that a woman should always have a right to abortion if she so chooses.

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Judith Jarvis Thompson creates an analogy about

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Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Being Human (BH), Being Like Human (BLH), Potentiality (P), Evolving Value (EV), or Actuality (A) Criterion.

Early-term fetuses do not have as much moral value as late- term fetuses.

5.What relevance does the morality of abortion have to whether or not there should be laws regulating abortion?

6.According to the species-based criterion of Method II, in order to have full moral value and a right to life an individual must have certain person-making characteristics, such as the ability to reason.

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The women least likely to have abortions are

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According to the Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling, there is a fundamental right to privacy.

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To suggest that abortion may be less immoral in Kenya than in Germany is based on

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According to Thomson, if one has a right to life one has a right to whatever is necessary to sustain that life.

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If some action is immoral, then it follows from this alone that it ought also to be illegal.

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According to the Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling, abortion is not permissible beyond the 12th week of fetal development.

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According to utilitarian reasoning, abortion is morally unjustified if it will lead to more unhappiness than happiness.

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If a woman says she has a right to her body, she is basing her argument on

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According to the Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling, the right to privacy is absolute.

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Sex-selective abortion is legal in

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In using “Method I” to determine the morality of abortion we need to pick a point in fetal development and then tell what is present and why this is significant.

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People who argue that abortions lead to a lack of adoptable babies are basing their argument on

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RU486 induces abortion by

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According to Thomson and her violinist analogy based argument, if the fetus is thought to be a human being then abortion is not morally permissible.

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To claim that before Roe v. Wade there were thousands of women dying as a result of illegal abortions is making an argument based on

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Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Being Human (BH), Being Like Human (BLH), Potentiality (P), Evolving Value (EV), or Actuality (A) Criterion.

Because dolphin species can think and communicate they have the same full moral status as members of the human species.

23.Do all arguments regarding abortion need to determine what is the moral status of the fetus? Explain.

24.All arguments regarding abortion depend on decisions regarding the moral status of the fetus.

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A blastocyst is a

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MacKinnon listed all the following as stages of fetal development except

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28.Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Being Human (BH), Being Like Human (BLH), Potentiality (P), Evolving Value (EV), or Actuality (A) Criterion.

There are some human beings that do not have full moral status because they do not actually have the ability to think and communicate, for example, those in a persistent vegetative state.