PHIL 164 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Therapeutic Abortion, Anencephaly, Abortion Debate
24 Aug 2016
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Possible arguments: fetus is a person; abortion is not permissible, fetus is not a person; abortion is permissible, fetus is a person; abortion is permissible, fetus is not a person; abortion is not permissible. Assume fetus is not a person: might abortion still be wrong, if fetus is not a person , only one person involved: the mother. 10: a being with the capacity to be a person has the rights of a person. 11: fetus has the capacity to become a person. 12: thus, fetus has the rights of a person. 13: rights include the right to life. 14: thus, fetus has the right to life. Children are potential adults; children should have the rights of an adult. Personifying drug for cats; cats have potential to be person; cats should have rights of a person. Then mother and fetus are two people, like mother and child.
