In this discussion board, answer the following and quote at least one passage from each reading to support your answers:
After reading Marquis, “Why Abortion is Immoral”:
What assumption does the author make about the moral status of a fetus? Why is this assumption important to his argument?
The author’s argument makes claims about the fundamental moral issues underlying the killing of another person. In his view, why is killing a moral wrong?
How does he apply the reasoning outlined in your answer to Question 1 and Question 2 to make a moral judgment regarding abortion? What is the evaluation?
After reading Warren, “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion”:
Should we read Warren’s paper as a response to Marquis’s paper? Why or Why not? What are the goals of each part (sections I and II) of Warren’s Paper?
In section II, Warren outlines 5 traits emblematic of ‘personhood’, what are they and what reasons does she give for thinking that a fetus is not a person in the full moral sense?
Why, given section I, is the question of fetal personhood an unavoidable question for Warren in the ‘abortion debate?
After reading Thomson, “A Defense of Abortion”:
What are the central questions that Thomson wants the reader to consider given the Violinist thought experiment?
In the practice of mediating conflicting rights to life between persons, why, according to Thomson’s views, is it important that “if the woman houses the child, it should be remembered that she is a person who houses it.”? How does this observation challenge the ‘extreme view about the impermissibility of abortion”? What, according to Thomson, is that view?
Thomson’s views are complex and nuanced because they navigate the maze of issues that surround our rights to life, when those rights conflict with another, and where people may not have the right to demand that we sacrifice ourselves for them. She is arguing for the moral permissibility of abortion. What does this mean? In some cases, she argues that it is obviously the case that abortion is permissible (i.e., if you are very early in a pregnancy, in cases of sexual assault, or when the life of the mother is in danger) while other cases may require that a mother carry the child to term because an abortion would be highly problematic (i.e., “It would be indecent in the woman to request an abortion, and indecent in a doctor to perform it, if she is in
her seventh month, and wants the abortion just to avoid the nuisance of postponing a trip abroad.”). How does Thompson’s approach to the issue of abortion allow for this kind of nuance?
After reading Wolllard, “Mother Knows Best: Pregnancy, Applied Ethics, and Epistemically Transformative Experiences”, and Little, “Abortion, Intimacy, and the Duty to Gestate”:
What is an epistemically transformational experience? What reasons does Wollard give for thinking that ‘pregnancy’ is an epistemically transformative experience? Why does this matter, according to Wollard, when we are discussing the ethics of abortion?
According to Little, why is being pregnant an intimacy? Why is this such an important observation with thinking about forcing people to gestate?
In this assignment be sure to:
explain, in your own words, each passage you cite. You should quote the passage you are discussing in order to direct people to what you are talking about and provide an appropriate citation/page number.
represent insights you have gained from a passage.
offer a perspective on what it took for you to understand a passage’s content.
Lastly, and most importantly, you must pose a question about some concept or content in the passage for your classmates to respond to.
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