Therefore, killing a newborn child would also have to be considered as morally acceptable. Schwarz finds this contradiction in his passage in “Contemporary Moral Arguments” as the foundation for proving any opposing arguments as faulty. Based off of this position, abortions are immoral because, “the fact that a human being functions as a person or has the present and immediate capacity to do so, is not ground for his dignity, preciousness, and right to life; rather, that decisive ground is the fact of his being a person” (Schwarz, CMA pg. 137). An example given in CMA that is used in support the argument is of a child in a coma. Typically, a child in a coma is portrayed still as a human being; however technically they aren’t by the definition of Warren. The question at hand is, how does this child qualify for life while the unborn fetus does not? The basis for the argument is for the fetus’s future potentially to become a functioning human; hence, their right to life should be protected in order for a fetus to have to the opportunity to gain human
Therefore, killing a newborn child would also have to be considered as morally acceptable. Schwarz finds this contradiction in his passage in “Contemporary Moral Arguments” as the foundation for proving any opposing arguments as faulty. Based off of this position, abortions are immoral because, “the fact that a human being functions as a person or has the present and immediate capacity to do so, is not ground for his dignity, preciousness, and right to life; rather, that decisive ground is the fact of his being a person” (Schwarz, CMA pg. 137). An example given in CMA that is used in support the argument is of a child in a coma. Typically, a child in a coma is portrayed still as a human being; however technically they aren’t by the definition of Warren. The question at hand is, how does this child qualify for life while the unborn fetus does not? The basis for the argument is for the fetus’s future potentially to become a functioning human; hence, their right to life should be protected in order for a fetus to have to the opportunity to gain human