Abortion

23 August 2022
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If a woman says she has a right to her body, she is basing her argument on
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Natural Law
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Marquis argues that abortion is usually morally wrong because
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Abortion involves the loss of life which is the greatest loss that one can suffer
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What starting point for consideration of abortion does Thomson accept
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. That the fetus is a person from the moment of conception
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To suggest that abortion may be less immoral in Kenya than in Germany is based on
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Relativism
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The Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision distinguished between how many stages during a woman's pregnancy
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Three
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Blastocyst is a
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ball of cells
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Why don't Utilitarians concern themselves with the moral status of the fetus
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It is the duty of the mother to the fetus that concerns Utilitarians, not the moral status of the fetus
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What is the point of the violinist analogy in Thomson's argument
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That a person is not always morally obligated to keep a person alive
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Arguments that do not depend on the moral status of the fetus will not involve
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the stages of fetal development
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The suggestion that using embryos from fertility clinics which would otherwise be destroyed or kept frozen is an ethical activity relies upon ________ reasoning
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Utilitartianism
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The Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision was made in what year
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1973
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Every __________ a woman in a developing country dies from complications after an unsafe abortion.
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8 Minutes
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People who argue that abortions lead to a lack of adoptable babies are basing their argument on
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Utilitarinism
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What right was seen grounded in the Constitution according to Roe v. Wade?
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Privacy
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Arguments that depend on the moral status of the fetus will not involve
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Rights of the mother
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The stage at which the fetus is capable of surviving apart from the pregnant woman is
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Viability