Exam 9: Abortion

The deliberate termination of a pregnancy by surgical or medical (with drugs) means is known generally as

Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion may sometimes be permissible whether or not the fetus is a person.

According to Mary Anne Warren's criteria for personhood, a self-motivated space alien that was conscious, able to reason and communicate, and was self-aware would be

Suppose Katrina is a rule-utilitarian and believes that following the rule "Girls under the age of eighteen should not be permitted to to have abortions without notifying a parent or guardian" would maximize happiness. Which of the following would be the best reason for Katrina's view?

With the violinist scenario, Judith Jarvis Thomson tries to show that

Ahmed rejects the claims that abortions are almost never permissible as well as the notion that they almost always are. Thus, he holds the ________ view.

In Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that

The risk of death for women who have an abortion at eight weeks or earlier is

"Is abortion morally right?" is primarily a legal question.

Mary Anne Warren suggests that being genetically human is the same thing as being a person in the moral sense.

Some conservatives have argued that the fetus becomes a human being at conception because it receives the human genetic code at that point.

Most abortions are performed in the

In arguments over abortion, both the conservative and the liberal agree that

The view that the fetus becomes a person at quickening is problematic because

An act-utilitarian would say that an abortion is morally wrong whenever the fetus is a person.

Chinese parents who argue that aborting female fetuses prevents economic harm to the family, and should be allowed, would be using a(n) ________ argument.

Isabella has adopted the view that abortion is always (or almost always) permissible. She therefore holds the ________ view.

Judith Jarvis Thomson's position is argued without

An abortion specifically performed to protect the life or health of the mother is referred to as

At about twenty-three or twenty-four weeks, the state referred to as ________, the fetus may be able to live outside the uterus.