Deck 5: Abortion-PART A

Question 1

Which of the following terms describes an abortion that is required to save the life, or is essential to preserving the health, of the mother?

A) therapeutic abortion
B) voluntary abortion
C) selective reduction
D) partial birth abortion

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton opened the way for

A) partial-birth abortions.
B) abortion clinics.
C) therapeutic abortion.
D) elective abortion.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What problem does J. J. Thomson set aside?

A) The problem of fetal personhood
B) The problem of partial birth abortion
C) The problem of unintended consequences
D) The problem that there is no constitutional right to privacy

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The Roe v. Wade decision was based on the constitutionally protected right to:

A) abortion.
B) privacy.
C) liberty.
D) life.

Question 5

According to Judith Jarvis Thompson, which of the following is or are true?

A) Women have a moral right to an abortion under all circumstances.
B) If there is a conflict between a fetus's right to life and a mother's right to life, the fetus's right outweighs the mother's.
C) If the reason for an abortion is trivial, the abortion is not legitimate
D) If there is a conflict between a fetus's right to life and a mother's right to life, the fetus's right only outweighs that of the mother after a certain period in the womb.

Question 6

What is Thomson's violinist example supposed to be analogous to?

A) Involuntary pregnancy
B) Voluntary pregnancy
C) Partial birth abortion
D) Therapeutic abortion to save the mother's life

Question 7

Which of the following was illegal in almost all the states prior to the Roe v. Wade decision?

A) nontherapeutic abortions only
B) therapeutic abortions only
C) both nontherapeutic and therapeutic abortions
D) neither of these were illegal

Question 8

When did the U.S. Supreme Court issue its Roe v. Wade decision decriminalizing abortion?

A) 1973
B) 1962
C) 1984
D) 1959

Question 9

Thomson believes that the right to life

A) is held only by adults.
B) is held only after the first trimester.
C) is not absolute.
D) is absolute.

Question 10

Mary Anne Warren offers which of the following traits as essential for the concept of personhood or humanity in the moral sense?

A) consciousness and the capacity to feel pain
B) reasoning skills and the ability to solve problems
C) self-motivated activity
D) all of these choices

Question 11

Who used the example of a person trapped in a tiny house with a growing child?

A) Marquis
B) Warren
C) Thomson
D) Lee and George

Question 12

In what ways does Plan B work to prevent pregnancy?

A) It delays or prevents ovulation.
B) It inhibits fertilization.
C) It prevents a fertilized egg from implanting itself in the uterine wall
D) It delays or prevents ovulation or inhibits fertilization.

Question 13

The Roe v. Wade decision had which of the following effects?

A) It held that during the first trimester, states cannot restrict a woman's right to an abortion.
B) It held that during the second trimester, states may place restrictions on abortion to protect the health and safety of the pregnant women.
C) It held that during the third trimester, states may restrict abortion but only in ways that still preserve the health and safety of the pregnant woman.
D) All of these choices

Question 14

According to Mary Ann Warren, which of the following is or are true?

A) For a being to have a moral right to life it is sufficient that the being have the DNA of a human.
B) The fact that a fetus physically resembles a human being at a certain stage is not sufficient grounds for saying the fetus has a moral right to life at that stage.
C) A woman has a right to abort a fetus up to the point of viability-the point at which the fetus could survive outside the womb-but not beyond that point.
D) All of these choices

Question 15

Don Marquis believes that which of the following is morally wrong because it deprives a person of the value of his/her future?

A) abortion
B) contraception
C) both abortion and contraception
D) emergency contraception