PHL281H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Human Reproduction, Eudaimonia, Begging
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We can acquire something by appropriating it or by producing it (#3 and #4 on the. To make a child, both the mother and the father contribute to produce it. If someone grabs the child, it is almost as though something has been stolen from the parents. We say almost because a baby is a nascent rights-holder. In this way, it is itself something that can be wronged, which makes the idea of the baby being the property of the parents potentially strange. Susan and charles are a married couple. Susan is ambivalent whether she wants to have children, but charles does want to have a child. However, they have never had a discussion about pregnancy. Susan ends up pregnant, and she realizes now that the situation is upon her to make a decision about having a child. She decides she is not ready and wants to have an abortion.
