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The question – is abortion permissible?
A bad argument
• Murder is wrong
• Abortion is murder
• Therefore abortion is wrong
This argument begs the question. Abortion is certainly a killing – but is it a wrongful killing? ...
Support for the extreme view: abortion is a direct killing of the child, whereas doing nothing is merely letting the mother die. ...
Thomson on the weaker view
The weaker view: abortion is NOT permissible when the mother’s life is not at risk. ...
Results for permissibility of abortion:
a. ... Objection: The argument from infanticide – if abortion is justified, then so is infanticide. ...
Don Marquis’s argument against abortion
The question: why is wrong to kill? ...
Results for the permissibility of abortion
Abortion is NOT permissible – the fetus should not be deprived of a FLO.
Approximate Word count = 785
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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