Policy debate

This argument has been debated for a quite a long time. Should you or should you not have a vaccination. There is research for both sides of this argument. But for healthcare workers, the choice of having the vaccination is mandatory and if the healthcare worker refuses the vaccine they will not have a job at where he or she is working and must find an new facility to work in. Not having the choice of having a vaccination is unjust and wrong. And even if they have taken the shot for the…

Marquis argues that killing a fetus deprives it of a valuable future/future like ours, and concludes by saying abortion is not morally permissible. I agree with Marquis’ argument that it is wrong to kill a fetus through abortion because I believe that they have a valuable future as all humans do. While I agree with Marquis that majority of deliberate abortions are seriously immoral, I do believe that in some cases it is permissible. For instance, choosing to have an abortion after being sexually…

Abortion and euthanasia are two of the most controversial moral dilemmas in modern philosophy. Abortion, the act of intentional killing of a fetus during pregnancy, is condemned in almost all cases by natural law standards. Euthanasia, the act of intentional killing with the intention of relieving a person from great suffering, would also be deemed immoral and irrational by a natural lawyer. Professor Gómez-Lobo defends these natural law teachings in his book, Morality and the Human Goods.…

What is Abortion? Abortion is when you are ending a pregnancy, (getting rid of a baby).Many people ask the same question; Should Abortion be legal or Illegal? Most people feel like they have the right to choose if they want to get abortion or not. You shouldn’t decide to get abortion because your mother didn't get abortion with you. I don’t believe in abortion, because killing a child is not christian-like and you should ask yourself what would Jesus do? There are two types of abortion you can…

In my opinion I think that abortion should be illegal. Abortion is a huge issue today in our society today. Many people believe it is evil to kill an unborn child. Abortion can also lead to health complications. Having an abortion carries the risk of not being able to become pregnant. It often leads to unwanted memories, result in stress or depression. I think that abortion should be illegal. Abortion is a huge issue today in our society today. Many people believe it is evil to kill an unborn…

Abortion is an immensely controversial topic in today’s society. Jarvis Thomson makes many arguments on the topic of abortion in the writing of “A Defense of Abortion”. In today’s society, there are many different stances on abortion that include a variety of concepts and situations to consider. Jarvis Thomson says that abortion can be permissible. Many people can concure to that saying babies are innocent and do not mean to harm a mother, but a mother has a right to her body. Many say that the…

In 1992, Mary Fisher gave a speech to the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas, entitled “A Whisper of AIDS”. In this speech, Mary Fisher shouted out to a nation that was allowing AIDS, the enemy, to win because of prejudice and politics. Mary Fisher wanted to “lift the shroud of silence” (Fisher) against the AIDS epidemic, by reminding her audience that AIDS does not discriminate and neither should we. With her powerful and moving speech, she accomplished this by using statistics…

Freakonomics Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms? Alexis Campbell POLS 1 Summary John Kenneth Galbraith came up with the term “conventional wisdom” which means “the enemy of the truth.” Conventional wisdom is not always true but tends to be simple. An example of conventional wisdom is advertising. Listerine convinced people that bad breath was a disease and that the only way to cure themselves from this disease was to use listerine. Another way that…

Emily Foster Phil 2100 Applied Ethics Short Ethics Paper #1 14 October 2017 Would We Cease to Exist? Abortion is defined as the ending of a women’s pregnancy and has been a deep-rooted, debatable topic in ethics. Deontologist Immanuel Kant believed that it is the human’s duty to do what is right, simply because it is morally right. He believed that people needed to do the right thing out of the goodness of their hearts, not because of the outcome or reward it may offer. The question all…

Abortion is a highly controversial topic, in Joseph Meaney's article, Why We Should All Be Pro-Life, he tells about the motivations behind being pro-life, while in Jill Fillipovic's article, Why I’m Pro-Choice, she discusses her side of the never-ending debate. Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of human pregnancy. It's no secret abortion has been a sensitive subject in aspects of religion, politics and morality. Whenever social issues as contentious as abortion get discussed,…