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Warren Status on Abortion |
- Violinist Scenario Only Clearly Works for Cases of Rape - ABORTION SHOULD BE ALLOWED |
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Warren: Non-Rape Cases Conflicts to Human Rights |
- Conflicts with her right to govern her own body - Thompson's view doesnt allow women to change mind after inviting fetus |
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Warren Critcism to Noonan |
- Being Human is a Poor Criterion for Membership 1. Being human isnt sufficient for being in the moral community 2. Being human is not necessary to be in the moral community 3. Animals/Aliens ought to be members Brain dead/Brainless ought not |
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Warren's Criterion for Membership |
- Sentience - Emotionality - Reason - Communication Capacity - Self-Awareness - Moral Agency - FETUSES HAVE NONE OF THESE ATTRIBUTES |
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Warren Potential Persons |
- Infants are prob Not actual Persons, but there may be independent reasons to avoid infanticide |
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Noonan on Abortion (AGAINST) |
- If when viable, Then 2,4,5 yr olds could be aborted - If when a being has accumulated experience, Then people with memory loss/infants could be killed. Fetus responds to touch |
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Noonans Argument 1 |
- A being = full rights when fully human - A being = fully human it has full DNA (b/c then it has potential to become a reasoning human) - A being has a full set of rights upon Conception |
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Noonan Argument 2 |
- Something Special Happens at Conception which signifies that a New Kind of Being Exists - Huge shift in probability: (1/200mil to 8/10) - Shify in Prob is so Drastic as to draw a line where Abortion becomes Immoral - Prob shift is why Sperm and Ova do not have rights |
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Noonan When Abortion is Acceptable |
- When Woman's Life is at Stake. Self Defense - Would not be inconsistant for with Christianity for her to have the baby anyway |
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Criticism to Noonan's Probability |
- Probability Shifts of the Same Magnitude Sometimes Occur before Conception (this means sometimes a being will have rights who has not yet been conceived) - Sometimes No Probability Shift Occurs at Conception |
