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Abortion!
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- 1Principle of Double EffectIntention: Save mother's life
Side Effect: Baby dies - 2Definition of abortionUntimely delivery voluntarily occured with an intent to destroy the foetus
- 31967 Abortion Act1. Serious risk to physical or mental health of woman or existing children
2. Foetus is disabled
3. Consent of two doctors - 41967 Abortion Act1. Serious risk to physical or mental health of woman or existing children
2. Foetus is disabled
3. Consent of two doctors - 5Potential Life: Weaknesses- values the foetus not for what it is but for what it will become
- when does potential life start? → contraception?!
- more than just potential life - 6Potential Life: Strengths- solves the issue about the beginning of life
- values the fact that life is a process - 7Potential Life: Strengths- solves the issue about the beginning of life
- values the fact that life is a process - 8Judith Jarvis Thomson- conflicting rights
- mother's rights are more important
- mother has the right to:
a) self-defence
b) decide about her own body - 9Father's Rights- UK: There is no law about the rights of the father, but there were several cases where the father had no succes in trying to stop the abortion
-USA: law has officially stated that the father does not have any rights
- China: in 2003 a law stated that father and mother had equal rights - 10Advantages & Disadvantages - Adoption+ Many people who want children
+ Fulfilling of potential life
+ not killing a life
- difficult for mother
- still have to go through pregnancy
- expanding population
- issues with finding out etc. - 11Roman CatholicsAbortion is always wrong.
Human life is sacred and a gift from god.
Humans do not have the right to take the life of another
human life begins at conception - 12Vatican IIAbortion is an abonimable crime.
- 13Principle of Double EffectKilling the Baby as a "sideeffect" witht the intention to save the mother's life.
- 14Church of EnglandAbortion is never right, but there are some situation ehich justify abortion:
- threat to physical or mental health
- the goetus is seriously mentally or physically disabled
- rape or incest
→ sometimes abortion is the lesser of two evils. - 15Church of EnglandAbortion is never right, but there are some situation ehich justify abortion:
- threat to physical or mental health
- the goetus is seriously mentally or physically disabled
- rape or incest
→ sometimes abortion is the lesser of two evils. - 16Where does human life begin?Conception → Sperm fertilizes egg
Implantation → Egg moves into the lining of the womb
Ensoulment → Old Christian: 40 days boys; 90 days girls
Pre-Embryo → up to 14 days
Brain Activity → 54 days
Viability → Baby COULD live without his mother (6 month)
Birth - 17SituationismThe right thing to do is always the most loving thing.
Based on Jesus: "love thy neighbour"
All depends on the situation - 18Utilitarianism- Greatest Good for greatest number of people
- weigh up the consequences
- abortion is important for society as a whole: less child poverty, less strain on food and resources, better providing
- SENTIENCE - 19SentienceSentient beings have an interest in pleasure and pain.
- 20Utilitarians - Disability"For some it would be better not to have existed at all than to live with suffering and pain."
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