PHI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deontological Ethics, Feticide, Fetus
16 Jun 2016
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Moral issues vs legal issues of abortion. 4 position you could take on abortion: 1. Abortion is morally wrong and should be illegal: 2. Abortion is morally permissible and should be legal: 3. Abortion is morally wrong but should be legal (relatively common: 4. Abortion is morally permissible but should be illegal. Deontologist view of abortion: kant would ask whether abortion in an given situation be turned into a universal law. **both utilitarian and deontology views on abortion can go either way because they are so many factors to take into account especially as to whether the questions concern the mother, the fetus/child, or society. Assuming that abortion is morally wrong . : an exception could be if the mother"s health/well-being is in danger (similar to killing in self defense, another exception could be when the pregnancy is the result of a rape. A common argument against abortion (with no exception to rape victims: 1.
