writing “On The Moral and Legal Status of Abortion”, Mary Anne Warren thoroughly assesses the legal standing of abortion to be just and fair based upon the possession of these criteria for humanity: consciousness, reasoning, self-motivated activity, flexible communication skills, and self-concept—characteristics a fetus supposedly lacks. When Warren undermines the argument in which life begins at conception, she establishes a liberal, pro-choice position to abortion. In my thesis, I will discuss the problem
As a result, increased abortions related to abnormal genes that may cause a child to have a disability are increasing. This has lead to a heated debate as to whether prenatal testing that leads to selective abortions is moral. Opponents of prenatal testing claim that aborting disabled fetuses sends a negative message to society and to the disabled community that having a disability makes life less worth living, thus harms the society and community by inflating biases against the disabled.
He argues that a human fetus is essentially the same as an adult fetus and as such, it has the same right to live that an adult possesses. Marquis questions society's regard of fetuses as nearly human and posits instead that a fetus is a valued life that could have been every bit as important as that of an adult human and should be given the same rights and considerations. He regards killing as the prevention
In Michael J. Sandel’s “The Case against Perfection,” the author looks at the idea of genetic engineering as a human dignity issue, but many people do not know how genetic engineering diminishes us. Michael J. Sandel takes an unbiased look at genetic engineering while questioning society’s standards and morality. According to Sandel, the question of ethics is a social matter that needs to question why different situations bring society to accept or deny the ideas of the genetic engineering. The
recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable” (845). Thoreau makes a point of clarifying that it is not to early to rebel against a government one believes to be unjust. For it is not only the right of the individual but rather the duty to society. He acts on this theory when he declines to pay taxes to Massachusetts for he felt it unjust to pay aid in a war which the government