1.Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Being Human (BH), Being Like Human (BLH), Potentiality (P), Evolving Value (EV), or Actuality (A) Criterion.
Since this fetus though human does not have the potential to develop the abilities of a person, for it has no upper brain, it does not have what is a necessary basis for rights.
2.The Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling on abortion asserts that a woman should always have a right to abortion if she so chooses.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
3.Judith Jarvis Thompson creates an analogy about
Group of answer choicesA child able to talk within the womb.A woman being denied a right to job.
A woman awakes to find her body being used to give life support to a violinist.
A man who is pregnant.
4.Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Being Human (BH), Being Like Human (BLH), Potentiality (P), Evolving Value (EV), or Actuality (A) Criterion.
Early-term fetuses do not have as much moral value as late- term fetuses. 5.What relevance does the morality of abortion have to whether or not there should be laws regulating abortion?
6.According to the species-based criterion of “Method II”, in order to have full moral value and a right to life an individual must have certain person-making characteristics, such as the ability to reason.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
7.The women least likely to have abortions are
Group of answer choicesBlack.Hispanic.
White.
Poor.
8.According to the Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling, there is a fundamental right to privacy.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
9.To suggest that abortion may be less immoral in Kenya than in Germany is based on
Group of answer choicesUtilitarianism.Natural law.
The Categorical imperative.
Relativism.
10.According to Thomson, if one has a right to life one has a right to whatever is necessary to sustain that life.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
11. If some action is immoral, then it follows from this alone that it ought also to be illegal.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
12.According to the Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling, abortion is not permissible beyond the 12th week of fetal development.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
13.According to utilitarian reasoning, abortion is morally unjustified if it will lead to more unhappiness than happiness.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
14.If a woman says she has a right to her body, she is basing her argument on
Group of answer choicesEgoism.Natural law.
Categorical Imperative.
Virtue ethics.
15. According to the Roe v. Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling, the right to privacy is absolute.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
16.Sex-selective abortion is legal in
Group of answer choicesthe U.K.Canada
Germany
the U.S.
17.In using “Method I” to determine the morality of abortion we need to pick a point in fetal development and then tell what is present and why this is significant.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
18.People who argue that abortions lead to a lack of adoptable babies are basing their argument on
Group of answer choicesUtilitarianism.Natural law.
Categorical Imperative.
Egoism.
19.RU486 induces abortion by
Group of answer choicespreventing the blastocyte from embedding in the uterine wall.replacing the amnioitic fluid with saline.
inducing uterine contractions.
inducing early labor.
20.According to Thomson and her violinist analogy based argument, if the fetus is thought to be a human being then abortion is not morally permissible.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
21.To claim that before Roe v. Wade there were thousands of women dying as a result of illegal abortions is making an argument based on
Group of answer choicesUtilitarianism.Virtue ethics.
Categorical Imperative.
Relativism.
22.Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Being Human (BH), Being Like Human (BLH), Potentiality (P), Evolving Value (EV), or Actuality (A) Criterion.
Because dolphin species can think and communicate they have the same full moral status as members of the human species.23.Do all arguments regarding abortion need to determine what is the moral status of the fetus? Explain.
24.All arguments regarding abortion depend on decisions regarding the moral status of the fetus.
Group of answer choicesTrueFalse
25.A blastocyst is a
Group of answer choicesBall of cells.Type of abortion procedure.
Concept the pro-life camp uses to scare women.
Ovum.
26.MacKinnon listed all the following as stages of fetal development except
Group of answer choicesFertilization.Viability.
Sensory awareness.
Quickening.
27.What is the difference between Method I and Method II.
28.Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Being Human (BH), Being Like Human (BLH), Potentiality (P), Evolving Value (EV), or Actuality (A) Criterion.
There are some human beings that do not have full moral status because they do not actually have the ability to think and communicate, for example, those in a persistent vegetative state.