Influence Of Virtue Ethics On The Healthcare Rights Of Women

There are various points of view on the healthcare rights of women. Sometimes it even boils down to one’s own ethics. There are different forms/views of ethics, such as: consequentialism, duty-based, situation based and virtue ethics. I believe virtue ethics have the biggest impact/correlation to healthcare rights for women. “Virtue ethics is person rather than action based: it looks at the virtue or moral character of the person carrying out an action, rather than at ethical duties and rules, or the consequences of particular actions” (BBC). Virtue ethics would encourage people to think of the people and the action of giving women a range of healthcare rights would be virtuous. Mainly the virtue ethic of eudemonism would impact the debate on health care rights for women. …show more content…
To understand its role in virtue ethics we look to Aristotle's function argument. Aristotle recognizes that actions are not pointless because they have an aim. Every action aims at some good (Athanassoulis, 2012). In reference to women’s healthcare rights, a eudaemonist would understand that allowing a woman full range of healthcare rights would generally please the women. In turn that will have positive outcomes. If an employer grants the women employees the health benefits they need, including birth control methods the women would feel as if they are working for someone that cares about them and their happiness. “In more general terms, Eudaimonism can be thought of as any theory that puts personal happiness and the complete life of the individual at the center of ethical concern” (Mastin