Bioethics Final Exam (With complete solution)

Roe v. Wade & Justice White's dissent (1973) correct answers Constitutional basis for extension of privacy is highly ambiguous W/o precedent matter should be decided by states through legislation Even in the first trimester should this right to abort be absolute for any reason whatsoever? personhood correct answers the condition of being a person, roe v. Wade criticized to confining personhood to only post-birth, in general when personhood begins is highly contested in abortion conversations right of life correct answers the idea that the fetus has a right to live, or in a sense not to be killed, also the idea that the protection of life we guarantee to adult citizens should also be guaranteed to those who are not yet born right of body correct answers right to have a say as to what happens in and with your body, raises the question of if you have an obligation to care for someone else at the expense of your own autonomy Thomson's violinist moral analogy correct answers Moral scenario where there is an unconscious famous violinist who can continue to live if and only if they are directly attached to your body. Are you morally obliged to let them use your body, now extrapolate to pregnancy right of self-defense correct answers right of a woman to an abourtion on the grounds of defending herself from imminent bodily harm * pro-life feminism correct answers tends to focus on building communities of support for pregnant women to help them to carry through with a pregnancy and not feel alone, often driven by local church groups, and local level organizations social effects of abortion correct answers If expanded, abortion could be used to weed out particular traits, disabilities, genders, etc.. this could have negative impacts on the society as a whole species membership correct answers the defining hallmarks of what makes a fetus a person personhood gradualism correct answers common in Islamic thinking, As fetus progresses in womb it becomes more human