Empirical Claim: ¶ 2 – “Stem cells from umbilical-cord blood and adult tissues, posing no moral problem, have advanced quickly toward treating juvenile diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, sickle-cell anemia, cardiac damage and other conditions.” This Claim fits the empirical claims criteria because it is based on pervious researched and published work of scientist and it out come have been observed over many years.
Normative Claim: ¶ 1 – “Such killing in the name of “progress” crosses a fundamental moral line.” This Claim fits the normative claims Criteria because the moral lines are defined through norms of a society. In addition, morality of something is a belief that one has about that.
Conceptual Claim: ¶ 1 – “President Clinton’s National Bioethics …show more content…
Therefore this claim is a universal affirmative categorical claim (A).
Categorical Statement: ¶ 1 – “Embryos that couples want discarded are barred from being used in research.” This claim fits the categorical statement criteria because it is constructed by, “all” as unexpressed quantifier, “Embryos that couples want discarded” as subject term, “are” as copula, and “barred from being used in research” as predicate term. Therefore this claim universal affirmative categorical claim (A).
Fallacy: ¶ 1 – “In fact, many couples who initially chose to discard their “excess” embryos have later changed their minds and let them survive.” Here author is committing the fallacy of hasty generalization and is trying to convince the reader that many people have done this, however the author is reaching a wide conclusion from small sample that he might have observed or heard
Normative Claim: ¶ 1 – “Such killing in the name of “progress” crosses a fundamental moral line.” This Claim fits the normative claims Criteria because the moral lines are defined through norms of a society. In addition, morality of something is a belief that one has about that.
Conceptual Claim: ¶ 1 – “President Clinton’s National Bioethics …show more content…
Therefore this claim is a universal affirmative categorical claim (A).
Categorical Statement: ¶ 1 – “Embryos that couples want discarded are barred from being used in research.” This claim fits the categorical statement criteria because it is constructed by, “all” as unexpressed quantifier, “Embryos that couples want discarded” as subject term, “are” as copula, and “barred from being used in research” as predicate term. Therefore this claim universal affirmative categorical claim (A).
Fallacy: ¶ 1 – “In fact, many couples who initially chose to discard their “excess” embryos have later changed their minds and let them survive.” Here author is committing the fallacy of hasty generalization and is trying to convince the reader that many people have done this, however the author is reaching a wide conclusion from small sample that he might have observed or heard