Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Brain Death, Music Appreciation, Ensoulment
18 Apr 2016
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The concept of personhood & its relationship with abortion. Different experiences when it comes to you being the parent and dealing with the problem. Different look at the same issue because now you are the person involved. Personhood a lot of ethical questions, personhood is a key issue. It"s about making tough moral decisions in the moment itself different experience. If all of us have a clear definition/idea (we don"t yet!) of being a person, then we would have useful concepts when making a decision in different situations. People argue about that, if the fetus is a person, that would change the debate. Therefore, personhood is a very important key aspect that affects the two sides of the arguments and comes into a lot of discussions to support/disagree. "normal" adult human beings autonomous normal adults, so the normal people are. The normal people we see/interact it is unjustifiable to not call them people, because they have no problems.
