Exam 9: Abortion

According to this decision, this right is absolute.

Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Species Criterion (S), Modified Species Criterion (MS), Strict Potentiality Criterion (SP), Modified Potentiality Criterion (MP), or Actual Possession Criterion (A). It is an advance morally that we have come to realize that all human beings have equal and full moral worth no matter what their age, capacity, race, or sex.

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

Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Species Criterion (S), Modified Species Criterion (MS), Strict Potentiality Criterion (SP), Modified Potentiality Criterion (MP), or Actual Possession Criterion (A). 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.

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

According to this decision, there is a fundamental right to privacy.

Planned Parenthood suggested the information given out at the Pregnancy Support Center was

According to the Species Criterion, 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.

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

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

The women least likely to have abortions are

Compared with 1990, the number of abortions in the US in 2003 was about

Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Species Criterion (S), Modified Species Criterion (MS), Strict Potentiality Criterion (SP), Modified Potentiality Criterion (MP), or Actual Possession Criterion (A). Early-term fetuses do not have as much moral value as late- term fetuses.

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

Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Species Criterion (S), Modified Species Criterion (MS), Strict Potentiality Criterion (SP), Modified Potentiality Criterion (MP), or Actual Possession Criterion (A). Because dolphin species can think and communicate they have the same full moral status as members of the human species.

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

A blastocyst is a

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

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

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