Ethics Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Ethics Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers 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. - False All arguments regarding abortion depend on decisions regarding the moral status of the fetus. - False According to utilitarian reasoning, abortion is morally unjustified if it will lead to more unhappiness than happiness. - True According to Thomson, if one has a right to life one has a right to whatever is necessary to sustain that life. - False 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. - True 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 personmaking characteristics, such as the ability to reason. - False
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