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Essay on If the foetus is not a person does it follow that abortion is morally neutral | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1050 words (4.2 pages) in the essay titled If the foetus is not a person does it follow that abortion is morally neutral One reason the debate about abortion goes nowhere is that each side focuses on a different topic. We make no progress because we are not talking about the same thing. The pro-abortionist focuses on a woman s rights and life, and the anti-abortionist focuses on a foetus rights, and protecting its life. There is actually much agreement between the opposing views. Most on both sides would agree that the life of a child is a precious thing that deserves full protection of the law. There might be nearly universal agreement that it is a woman s exclusive right to make decisions concerning her body. So where s the disagreement? The entire complex issue comes down to these questions:If so, is it always a person, or does it somehow become one (and when and how might this happen)? If not, does it follow that abortion is morally neutral? person, n. an individual human being: the outward appearance, living body (exclusive or inclusive of clothing) of a human being What is a foetus if it is not a person? It is not simply a bunch of cells of the mother s body, for what identifies the mother s cells is their DNA, and this bunch of cells doesn’t share that DNA content. If it is not a bunch of the mother s cells, then what is it? It is a new organism, because it contains a completely original set of DNA, and it is simply called a foetus. Animals , plants, and single cells are all alive, but not people. If we work from the premise that the foetus is not, in fact, a person, we have t... |
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