Test 2 Flashcards
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Warren
Criteria
Sentience and one of 4 additional properties
Warren cut off
After birth
Warren argument
People are members of moral community
Warren objection
Infanticide
Dogs cats chimps people but babies aren’t?? What?
Warren Comeback
Her post script
Steinbock
Criteria
Sentience (consciousness)
Steinbock
Cutoff
6 months gestation (development of cerebral cortex)
Steinbock
Argument
Not wrong until you have an experience agent (cerebral cortex) and experience pain. Once you experience is you have consciousness and interest and rights
Steinbock
Objection
Temporary Coma
Can’t kill them because it’s going to go away and they have future experiences
Bone marrow example (schimp v Mcfall)
Steinbock
Comeback
Wrong to kill the person in coma because they’ve experienced before, not because they have future experiences
Marquis criteria
Unique biological individuality
Marquis cutoff
2 weeks after conception
Marquis argument
Argument from wrongness of killing
Marquis objection
Confers rights on gametes. Every cell has potential of life. So this would mean we have to clone humans
Marquis comeback
2 week cutoff
Arguments from autonomy and self defense
Thomson, Dadlez & Andrews, beckwith, and English
Thomson
Right not to be hard as life support against will.
Violinist example.
Beckwith
You’re obligated to provide life support if you voluntarily did something you know you could create the need for it
Blizzard example
Dadlez & Andrews
Fetal rights could deprive women of civil rights.
Actual cases are examples
Constitution clearly states that born and naturalized citizens have rights so to include fetuses, there is need for an amendment
Actual cases examples for Dadlez and Andrews
Court ordered c-sections, criminalization of miscarriage
English
Can kill if that’s the minimum force necessary for defense of well-being
Example of hypnotized attackers
Pain capable unborn child protection act
Abortions are not okay after 5 months because fetus can allegedly feel pain at that stage
Abortion laws in the beginning
Initially intended to protect women’s health, not the health of a fetus.
Made illegal in 1800s because people were dying
Hyde amendment
No federal money goes to abortion
Taxpayers aren’t paying for it