PHL201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Feminist Ethics, Fetus, Simone De Beauvoir
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A fetus is a person, it is always wrong to kill a person; therefore it is wrong to kill a fetus. Argues that a fetus is always a person but abortion can still be permissible. The fetus is always a person (implausible to most people) In cases where abortion is necessary to save the mothers life. When the mother has used contraceptions but it has failed. Abortion is impermissible if the pregnancy is not the result of rape. Self-defense: the women can abort the fetus but a third party can"t. A women has the right to control what happens to her body, but she has to do it to herself. ** rejects the idea that the fetus"s right to live outweighs the mothers right to chose what happens to her body ** Social inequalities cannot come from differences alone. Men and women are equally as different than each other. Men and women are not socially equal.
