Chapters 11 And 12 (MIDTERM)

To suggest that sex is only acceptable between consenting adults would rely on

To say that something is a descriptive theory is to say that it tells us what we ought to do.

According to utilitarianism, an act that makes some people happy and others unhappy can never be morally right.

Which of the following is not an objection to the disapproval of homosexuality based on nature?

Comprehensive sex education for teens in the US seems to have led to

Which of the following is the best example of the categorical imperative?

Which of the following is not an example of utilitarian reasoning?

According to Thomson and her violinist analogy based argument, if the fetus is thought to be a human being then abortion is not morally permissible.

Ethics is that branch of philosophy that is concerned with how we ought to live, with the idea of the good, and with the meaning of such concepts as right and wrong.

Couples who cohabitate before getting married are more likely to divorce for this reason alone.

Which if the following is not a reason given for female circumcision?

RU486 induces abortion by

According to the species-based criterion of "Method II", in order to have full moral value and a right to life an individual must have certain person-making characteristics, such as the ability to reason.

According to Kant, people have the highest intrinsic value.

According to the Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling, there is a fundamental right to privacy.

If a woman says she has a right to her body, she is basing her argument on

Kant's categorical imperative would support all of these ideas about how we ought to behave in a sexual relationship, other than:

According to the Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling, abortion is not permissible beyond the 12th week of fetal development.

Sex-selective abortion is legal in

MacKinnon listed all the following as stages of fetal development except

According to a study published in 2009, the ratio of boys to girls in some sections of China was

A blastocyst is a(n)

The belief that gay and lesbian should live openly in same-sex relationships, because doing so invites homophobic people to become more open and inclusive, comes under ________ reasoning.

In using "Method I" to determine the morality of abortion we need to pick a point in fetal development and then tell what is present and why this is significant.

Judith Jarvis Thompson creates an analogy about

People who argue that abortions lead to a lack of adoptable babies are basing their argument on

The women least likely to have abortions are

To suggest that abortion may be less immoral in Kenya than in Germany is based on

Aquinas was the first philosopher to develop a complex ethical philosophy related to the ideas of natural law theory.

To claim that before Roe v. Wade there were thousands of women dying as a result of illegal abortions is making an argument based on