Deck 5: Abortion

Question 1

Patrick Lee believes that a complete human organism is a person.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The "Partial-Birth Abortion" controversy is fueled by misinformation.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The only barrier to a consensus on when an embryo is a person is a lack of scientific knowledge about when this change takes place.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Mary Ann Warren argues that there is a difference between being a genetic human and a moral human.

Question 5

Some opponents of abortion hold that anyone taking Plan B drugs is always engaged in an active moral wrong.

Question 6

Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that a fetus cannot be given the moral status of a person and therefore abortion is permissible.

Question 7

Judith Jarvis Thomson's violinist case is analogous to pregnancy with voluntary intercourse absent contraception.

Question 8

According to the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, states cannot impose any regulation on abortions.

Question 9

Some abortion activists hold that a fertilized ovum has full moral personhood status.

Question 10

After the Court's Roe v. Wade decision, the issue of abortion was settled and there have been no further moral or legal challenges to the status of a woman's right to have an abortion.

Question 11

John T. Noonan argues that we can judge abortion morally wrong only under Christian tenets and as such we should not be able to impose restrictions on abortions.

Question 12

Between 50% and 80% of fertilized human ova fail to implant in the uterine lining.

Question 13

Patrick Lee believes that human beings are only instrumentally valuable.

Question 14

Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion should always be permissible under any and all circumstances.

Question 15

Mary Ann Warren argues that women should have an unrestricted legal right to an abortion.