ah Bard
4/10/16
PHIL 2020-001
Professor Coates
Why it is Wrong Abortion has become quite common in America, as now there are laws in favor of letting an individual woman make her own decision about whether or not she wants to prolong her pregnancy to have a baby, or to have an abortion.
The key question that most philosophers admit and agree to while talking about abortion is, “How do you determine the humanity of a being?” (Noonan, first paragraph, lines 1-2) On the other hand, at the end of the day, when does a being get a privilege to life? The response to these inquiries will decide when it is, if at any point, ethically adequate to prematurely end a life. Conservative’s trust that newborn children obtain their rights to life right now of origination while the liberals feel that fetus’s really don 't have any rights to life until, at, or at some point after birth. Warren and Noonan are people who have opposite arguments, and both of their arguments have objections and agreements within them. One comes from a liberal standpoint, and the other a more conservative standpoint.
Noonan’s argument comes from a conservative view. He feels greatly that if human parents made you, then you are an individual with human rights. It would be unethical to have an abortion unless under the extremely serious circumstances where the mother and the …show more content…
His reasoning behind this is with his example of the pregnancy process. In a normal ejaculation, 200 million sperm are released, so the odds that one sperm has a chance at becoming human are one in 200 million. When the sperm finally meets the egg the probability of its chance to become human increases a lot, as it goes from one in 200 million to 4 out of 5. So therefore, Noonan feels that the fetus should be viewed as an individual with human
4/10/16
PHIL 2020-001
Professor Coates
Why it is Wrong Abortion has become quite common in America, as now there are laws in favor of letting an individual woman make her own decision about whether or not she wants to prolong her pregnancy to have a baby, or to have an abortion.
The key question that most philosophers admit and agree to while talking about abortion is, “How do you determine the humanity of a being?” (Noonan, first paragraph, lines 1-2) On the other hand, at the end of the day, when does a being get a privilege to life? The response to these inquiries will decide when it is, if at any point, ethically adequate to prematurely end a life. Conservative’s trust that newborn children obtain their rights to life right now of origination while the liberals feel that fetus’s really don 't have any rights to life until, at, or at some point after birth. Warren and Noonan are people who have opposite arguments, and both of their arguments have objections and agreements within them. One comes from a liberal standpoint, and the other a more conservative standpoint.
Noonan’s argument comes from a conservative view. He feels greatly that if human parents made you, then you are an individual with human rights. It would be unethical to have an abortion unless under the extremely serious circumstances where the mother and the …show more content…
His reasoning behind this is with his example of the pregnancy process. In a normal ejaculation, 200 million sperm are released, so the odds that one sperm has a chance at becoming human are one in 200 million. When the sperm finally meets the egg the probability of its chance to become human increases a lot, as it goes from one in 200 million to 4 out of 5. So therefore, Noonan feels that the fetus should be viewed as an individual with human