Infanticide

counterclaims can arise challenging the premise and basis of Thomson in support for abortion. The fault lines I will question and expand upon to better Thomson’s argument is the following: If a fetus is given human rights, would the killing of the fetus be infanticide; Is it morally just to abort a fetus when it is given human rights, even in self defense; Isn’t the mother responsible for the baby since she is the one that got pregnant; why are we not obligated to be good samaritans and carry…

The question of “designer babies” is one that is fairly recent and controversy of the topic starts from the very definition of the term. When one is presented with the term “designer babies”, Most people imagine a genetically engineered being who is less human and more technology. This false stigma mainly comes from the negative reputation of Genetically modified species such as food or animals. However, the reality is quite different, it can be argued that even choosing a fertilised cell as an…

almost 200 years apart, the similarities in each story can mirror the ideas and concepts each, author or producer, trying to get across. Many television shows and film ideas are drawn from key historical writings, produce a spinoff of a specific story, or use similar ideas to help convey a fresh new story. Goethe’s Faust, for example has very similar ideas to those contemporary ideas of “Breaking Bad”. The similarities between such a contemporary story, like “Breaking Bad”, as a form of the…

associated with violence”. Leah Marcus suggests that “Lady Macbeth is a ‘woman on top’ whose sexual ambivalence and dominance are allied with the demonic and mirror the obscure gender identifications of the bearded witches (1988, 104)” (“Fantasizing Infanticide”). Despite Macbeth himself being the namesake of the tragedy Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is the one to drive the story forward. Her early domineering attitude effectuates her husband’s first murder, but it is her later culpability that drives…

Mothers will do anything to protect their children, even if that means killing them. Sethe, the protagonist of Beloved, is an independent women whose life revolves around her children. Sethes most interesting trait: her devotion to loving her children, is surprising because Sethe had no maternal connection as a child. She barely knew her own mother, who she was ripped apart from under the difficult institutions of slavery. Sethe constantly refers to her children, specifically Beloved, as her…

“This Chuko, she’s certainly a bad one to be talking like that… No matter what it is — boy or girl — she should keep [the baby]” (Shostak 55). Even though Chuko’s proposed reason for infanticide was not gender-based, her sister’s attitude reflects that the !Kung valued both genders, and disapproved of gender-based infanticide. As female children grew up they learned to gather food, and as adults, they provided most of the subsistence for themselves and their families, gathering fifteen to…

Abortion and the Concept of a Person Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade case in 1973 legalized abortion, it has continued to be one of the most highly debated issues in the country. According to Mario Derksen, “Abortion is the unnatural termination of a pregnancy by killing (at least) one human fetus” (Derksen). There are two main sides to the abortion argument. Conservatives believe the life begins at conception; thus abortion is murder. On the other hand, liberals believe that…

they would build monuments, while Mesopotamia focused more on the literary aspect of art. Some of the social differences between the two are Egyptians respected upper-class women because of their marital status, and they did not practice female infanticide. China's culture practices developed at a different pace and differed from Mesopotamia and Egypt, because of the minimal contact between the societies. During the Shang dynasty in China, silk manufacturing developed, forms of ancestor…

China’s One Child Policy may have benefited them financially, but did not the lower or social economy as a whole.Fertility rates were also proven to have lowered from 4 or 5 kids to 1. It did help them reach their goal of reducing the population but it also had its disastrous side effects. China’s One Child Policy was a bad idea because it lead to children becoming spoiled ( Document D), Children having to help their parents during their old age ( Document B), and a Male Dominant Population.…

Topic Eight Reflection Paper- Alicia Turnquist Throughout the years there have been many theories that scientists and people have created. They can deal with anything from people, the world, or even food. These theories are later proven to be true or can be proven wrong Charles Darwin came up with the theory of natural selection. This gives an explanation of evolution, and how plants and animals have adapted to survive. He believed that everything happens for a reason and that one…