PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Counterargument, Fetus, Danian
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A defense of abortion , thompson (argues from a prima facie side) Everyone has a right to life, so the unborn person has a right to life . Both are innocent: the one who is threatened is not threatened because of any fault, the one who threatens does not threaten because of any fault: doesn"t follow threated person can"t defend herself, this undermines extreme aaa. Why abortion is immoral , marquis; robs fetus of all prospects of such future experience. Paa (pro-abortion argument: wrong to take human life (moral principal, fetus is a person (non moral fact, abortion is murder, personhood is what entails moral worth (moral principal, fetus isn"t a person, abortion isn"t murder. Marquis sees something wrong in both the mps. Problems with aaa mp: too broad (human cancer-cell culture, if human = human being, what"s minimum development? (too vague, either human being" is biological category or moral category.
