PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Late Termination Of Pregnancy, Fetus, Men Only
8 Apr 2015
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If it is then it will have all of these rights . Warren says that there is a biological sense and a moral sense that someone can be a human. If you slip between these 2 things like the conservative view does, then warren says it leads to a bad argument. It is wrong to kill innocent human beings (in the moral sense) Fetuses are innocent human beings (in the biological sense) This doesn"t follow because you have to prove, first, that fetuses are human beings in the moral sense. If someone doesn"t have any of these, then they"re not a person, even if they"re a human (she thinks they should have 1 or 2 to be a person) A fetus is not like a person morally. An embryo doesn"t have these characteristics and not does a 7-8 month fetus. They can feel pain and have brain activity. Not fully conscious, can"t reason or communicate.
