Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Abortion-Rights Movements, Fertility Medication, Human Reproduction
27 Jun 2018
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Chapter 4
Human being: individuak with human DNA or specific physiological characteristics;
human brain, CV system or individual with psychological existence specifically the ability to
know that it exists and has interests
a child becomes a human being when it has proceeded in a living state from the body
of the mother, whether or not it has breathed, has an independent circulation system,
the naval string is severed
Persistent vegetative state: a condition which individuals higher order brain function is
absent due to trauma or lack of oxygen, resulting in an irreversible coma or brain
death. do not meet requirements
Moral person: an individual with future value
Abortion: intentional termination of a pregnancy at any stage during the fetus’s gestational
development
conservative: conserve life
Warren: Interests of pregnant women will always override non-existant interest of fetus
Liberal postion on fetus: fetus has no moral rights pregnant women have have all moral
rights,
allow abortion between the first two trimesters gv
Moderate arguments: abortions are permissible in some instances and sometimes they
are not
Thomas: maternal responsibility for pregnancy; what right to life does the fetus have
does not have the right to demand anything
negative right to life: requiring the fetus not be killed unjustly
Positive right: rights to the provision of some item or service for example the right to receive
an elementary school education or health care
Negative right: rightt to non-interference, according to which others refrain from doing
something to or interfering with an individual
direct threat: permissible abortion
steps to avoid pregnancy that fail = abortion is permissible
no steps to avoid pregnancy = no abortion
Sherwin: critizes for wrongly considering abortion terms of fetal and moral status
fetus’s are only significant through indirect relational status
moral personhood misinterprets what is involved in persons
woman is the only one to bear the responsibilities
Seymour + Mahowald: treatments being forced on pregnant women for the well being of the
Document Summary
Persistent vegetative state: a condition which individuals higher order brain function is absent due to trauma or lack of oxygen, resulting in an irreversible coma or brain death. do not meet requirements. Abortion: intentional termination of a pregnancy at any stage during the fetus"s gestational development conservative: conserve life. Warren: interests of pregnant women will always override non-existant interest of fetus. Liberal postion on fetus: fetus has no moral rights pregnant women have have all moral rights, allow abortion between the rst two trimesters gv. Moderate arguments: abortions are permissible in some instances and sometimes they are not. Thomas: maternal responsibility for pregnancy; what right to life does the fetus have does not have the right to demand anything negative right to life: requiring the fetus not be killed unjustly. Positive right: rights to the provision of some item or service for example the right to receive an elementary school education or health care.
