Warren Abortion Essays

Yet, she does criticize those who defend abortion as the right to control one's body, "…it would be very odd to describe, say, breaking a leg, as damaging one's property, and much more appropriate to describe it as injuring oneself" (Warren, 314). Judith Thomson, according to Warren, says, "…a woman is under no moral obligation to complete an unwant...

The third view is the “Ultra-Liberal position”, which is the view that Mary Ann Warren wishes to provide support for in her article, “Abortion is Morally Permissible. I do not know of many people that would agree to this, even Mary Ann Warren herself.

Just as some people may not agree with what I am going to state, but I believe abortion is not right and therefore I do support that abortion is always an immoral choice. Beginning with Marry Anne Warren and her article “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion,” she states “Women who are poor, under-age, disabled, or otherwise vulnerable, suffer m...

Warren admits a fetus might have some rights because the mothers have the right to think of her body and diced if she wants to have the baby or not. I agree with Warren “The deliberate killing of viable newborns is virtually never justified This is in part because neonates are so very close to being persons that to kill them requires a very strong m...

Warren insists that the “moral” sense of human and “genetic” sense of human must be kept separate in this observation. “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” by Mary Anne Warren is an in depth analysis of what, in Warren’s opinion, it is exactly that defines a person and human being, the moral community, fetal development and the right to life,...

[Warren, 1973] cites an actual example when an irresponsible pregnant woman was charged for negligent homicide as she failed to observe the precautions and suffered a miscarriage. [Warren, 1973] rightly points out that sentience alone, cannot be considered a criterion for comparing moral equality of the fetus and of an infant, as if we were to give ...

Firstly, Warren argues that even on the surmise that a fetus has a strong right to life, abortion can still be seen as morally permissible. Warren argues that unless a mother had a special commitment towards the fetus she is in no position to make personal sacrifices toward its survival.

Warren does not raise the answers to already obvious arguments when considering these ... In essence, personhood as defined by Warren can only come after the first trimester.

The issue of morality in abortion is as questionable as the issue of legality because there are persons who argue that although they opposed abortion, they also do not want to legally forbid abortion. Mary Anne Warren critiqued the violinist analogy saying that the woman only has the right to choose abortion when her pregnancy is caused by rape or w...

The analogy showed, if the reader instinctively replied that it was morally acceptable to unplug the violinist, then they should also agree that in some cases abortion is permissible; so logically it has also to be true that abortion is permissible in all cases as Marquis’s theory illustrates. As Warren pointed out Thomson’s analogy did not show an ...

There are other key issues requiring attention, such as the moral status and interests of the pregnant woman who may desire an abortion, and importantly, the likely consequences of aborting or not aborting a particular foetus. Given the multiple facets requiring consideration, I assert that utilitarianism (Mill 1863) offers a coherent framework for ...

Debated issues include whether abortion should be illegal; if abortion is deemed to be illegal, then to what extent it should be illegal; who has the authority to decide whether or not abortion is illegal; what kind of methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional settlement; and what should be the role of religious, or moral views in area ...

Warren justifies that the five qualities are sufficient criteria of determining the apparent “personhood” of a being by stating that such principles of humanity would be used when attempting to study alien life forms on distant planets. Warren begins her argument by explicitly defining a human person as someone who is a “full-fledged member of the m...

Another legal scholar, Mary Anne Warren, agrees that the current legal status of abortion is such that states are largely free to severely limit access to safe and legal abortion procedures, despite Supreme Court rulings that would seem to suggest otherwise (142). One of the biggest issues, Warren states, with the current state of affairs for aborti...

In the essay titled "A Defense of Abortion", Judith Jarvis Thomson uses her violinist argument to show why abortion should be legal. Warren says possessing only criterion (1) and (2) would be sufficient for personhood.

This is a Christian ethical theory, some developed by Joseph Fletcher, which states that sometimes moral principles can be ignored if following the approach to find the most loving outcome, so therefore in the case of abortion depending on the mother and father’s situation, and if having the baby would produce more love by keeping it, then it would ...

The new argument she presents to the court is based on both the physical and moral pain that any woman who has an abortion experiences and additional evidence that the fetus is indeed a person. The Court ruled, by seven votes to two, that the right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution ...

According to Don Marquis (in “Why Abortion Is Immoral”), what is the property that the fetus possesses which makes abortion an immoral act? What is the conclusion she draws about the morality of abortion in this situation, and what is the basis for this conclusion?

Legalizing abortion will allow women to receive proper care and a safe abortion, which decreases the risk of death. In 2008, a study conducted by the American Psychological Association “found no evidence that abortion causes mental health and self-esteem problems in adult women.” She argues that although opponents of legalized abortion suggest that ...

The public debate of the mental health risk of abortion can be traced back to 1987 when President Reagan asked the Surgeon General Koop to report on the psychological and physical effects of abortion. Koop did not report on the physical effects of abortion because the obstetricians and gynecologist had already concluded that there was no difference ...

25 One might object that "abortion is morally neutral" is another possibility, but that which is morally neutral is morally permissible. I shall also use a "quadrilemma" argument similar to that of Peter Kreeft's to show that, aside from all specific argumentation, abortion cannot be morally justified.

Abortion is the murder of an innocent child, whether born or not, the fetus is still human and the killing of a human being is murder. Similarly, it is morally wrong to kill embryos.” (Warren, 1984, p. 1) In the Supreme Court Case Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court proclaimed that it didn’t have to determine when life began in order to resolve the abort...

Mary Anne Warren (1973), “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion,” in, “Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things (Issues in Biomedical Ethics), (pp. ” Many argue that the idea of moral indecency is too indistinct to be of any use; however Thomson has strongly claimed that arguing the issue of rights with regard to abortion is ...

Therefore, it is wrong to kill fetuses (Warren 53). In Warren’s “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion,” she argues against the anti-abortionists argument.

Many cultural and religious conservatives opposed legal abortion because legal abortion was thought to encourage sexual promiscuity by reducing the risks of sexual activity outside of marriage. The idea of liberalizing abortion laws became culturally salient during the late 1960s, and several state legislatures passed relatively permissive abortion ...

Warren does say that killing is wrong, but to deny an abortion would deny a woman’s rights. Warren goes on to say that abortion must be permissible to guarantee a woman’s human rights.

This would not be an abortion amendment. Despite all the social, medical and religious undertones in the abortion debate, the Roe v. Wade opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, has stood for twenty-four years on the basis that the right to choose an abortion is part of a woman's "right to personal privacy," a right that Blackmun stated is "foun...

Since no one loses their loved one, abortion is morally permissible. Mary Anne Warren in On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion stated the characteristics which are central to the concept of personhood which are “sentience, emotionality, reason, the capacity to communicate, self awareness, and moral agency” (Cahn 193).

However, abortion should not be used as a means of birth control, but if a fetus will be unwanted, it is better to be aborted than to be abused or neglected. In a notable defense of this position, philosopher Mary Anne Warren has proposed the following criteria for "person-hood": 1) consciousness (of objects and events external and or internal to th...

Pro-lifers may say to all of these arguments that any of these situations would be preferable to abortion. They say that when a women goes to get an abortion the fetus is given no choice.