Anna's Case Study: Autonomy, Duty To Mother A Child

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The values then at stake in Anna's case are autonomy, duty to mother a child, non-malfeasance (to do no harm) to her child whom she is obligated to and to be beneficent in doing good for the child and her own life (Collier & Haliburton, 2015, p.99). Anna has good intentions and a good will towards keeping this child, and as a mother she has a duty to take care of that child and do no harm to the child as the competent adult she is said to be. However, good intentions alone or the duty towards someone/something is not enough for the act to be deemed moral. It must be subjected to the C.I. posed by Kant for testing. The universality formation test displays that if each mother is to leave her disabled/dying infant to breathe their last because

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