Ethics Mid Term

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1 . Abortion is morally impermissible

I agree with Marquis that Abortion is morally impermissible because it is a process that leads to loss of life . Abortion is morally wrong because it involves killing an unborn thing though it is difficult to determine the human status of the unborn thing . Killing a fetus amounts to , killing an innocent person which is direct murder . In our society murder is breaking the moral laws and therefore abortion is morally impermissible

The fetus is a human

being . Human rights activists would support me if I said that it has a right to life . Therefore , the fetus has a right to life . The mother has a right to decide what happens in and out of her body too . But the fetus 's right to life outweighs the mother 's right to decide what happens in and out of her body too

Every fetus is a person with the right to life and since a person 's right outweighs the right of another person over her own body , a fetus therefore has a right to life

2 . Reasons why abortion is impermissible

The extreme view explains that abortion is morally impermissible in all cases because killing a person directly is impermissible . In our society we are bound by the ethics to avoid killing a person directly rather than keeping a person from dying . The life of a fetus begins right after conception , making it a human being .Moral principles in our society refrain us from ending the life of an unborn thing (Kitzpatrick , James K

In considering what is morally right or wrong I outline this example You are the governor in a state which has a 15 storey building at risk of collapsing if hit by an ocean current . The building is situated right in front of kindergarten school with more than 500 children . If the building collapses all the school children will be killed . A warning is sent out by the meteorologist department that a tremor will occur anytime in the next 24 hrs . You are not sure whether when the tremor hits the children will be in school . You then the school children to vacate their premises and the building blown up . Before blowing it up one of the firemen asks whether the building has been searched or not It occurs that no one searched the building and some people could still be in there . blowing up the building is morally irresponsible since no one is sure the building is empty . In this view I support the idea that it is morally wrong to end the life of a fetus when no one is sure whether it is a human life or not . This moral principle dictates that we must refrain from such an act (Maguire , Daniel C

Therefore , Abortion is a procedure that involves killing a fetus which has not been identified as a human being or not , when one is not sure of the human...