What Would A Deontological Ethicist View On Pregnancy
PHIL1404 Unit 7
When philosophers turned their attention to the ethics of reproduction, they focused on abortion and to lesser extent on how to use reproductive technologies to create pregnancy, yet it is expected a number of thorny ethical issue will be raised during the course of a continuing pregnancy. , labor and birth, these all are receiving attention in bioethics. Both pregnancy and birth can be approached from many philosophical angles. Pregnancy brings an interesting hot issue within philosophy of law that shows the appropriate legal status of the fetus and whether pregnancy has to be legally classified as a disability. Some authors discussed about pregnancy in a phenomenological term, and others used the term pregnancy or birth …show more content…
What would a deontological ethicist say is the ethical dilemma and the right or moral way to handle the ethical dilemma you have selected, and
The routinization of prenatal testing arguably institutionalizes the idea that disability is a medical condition detected at the level of the individual body. Furthermore, insofar as the standard response to prenatal testing is abortion, it entrenches the practice of ‘fixing’ disability through a medical intervention specifically, the extreme intervention of simply eliminating the disables body. (We cannot assume that prenatal testing and abortions should be the default “solution” to disability 4. Why would a deontological (duty-based or nonconsequential) ethicist make this choice?
The reason a deontological (duty-based or nonconsequential) ethicist make this choice , the argument holds that any given case of prenatal testing, particularly as linked as selective abortion which has expressive meaning for every one with that condition, Abby Lipmann’s writes , that the birth of certain babies should be announced merely by making testing available (1994, 24) . If we abort a fetus on the basis of a single trait, this symbolically suggests that not only this fetus life but the life of anyone who has this trait is not worth living or …show more content…
Why would a virtue ethicist make this choice? The virtue ethics made this choice, because of its behavior that showing highly moral standards, which includes goodness, righteousness, morality and integrity. As Plato emphasized four virtues, in particular called Cardinal virtues, wisdom, courage, temperance and justice. The virtue ethics is courage in a time of danger.
7. Finally, explain which choice or combination of choices are most appropriate or work best in handling this ethical dilemma,
When philosophers turned their attention to the ethics of reproduction, they focused on abortion and to lesser extent on how to use reproductive technologies to create pregnancy, yet it is expected a number of thorny ethical issue will be raised during the course of a continuing pregnancy. , labor and birth, these all are receiving attention in bioethics. Both pregnancy and birth can be approached from many philosophical angles. Pregnancy brings an interesting hot issue within philosophy of law that shows the appropriate legal status of the fetus and whether pregnancy has to be legally classified as a disability. Some authors discussed about pregnancy in a phenomenological term, and others used the term pregnancy or birth …show more content…
What would a deontological ethicist say is the ethical dilemma and the right or moral way to handle the ethical dilemma you have selected, and
The routinization of prenatal testing arguably institutionalizes the idea that disability is a medical condition detected at the level of the individual body. Furthermore, insofar as the standard response to prenatal testing is abortion, it entrenches the practice of ‘fixing’ disability through a medical intervention specifically, the extreme intervention of simply eliminating the disables body. (We cannot assume that prenatal testing and abortions should be the default “solution” to disability 4. Why would a deontological (duty-based or nonconsequential) ethicist make this choice?
The reason a deontological (duty-based or nonconsequential) ethicist make this choice , the argument holds that any given case of prenatal testing, particularly as linked as selective abortion which has expressive meaning for every one with that condition, Abby Lipmann’s writes , that the birth of certain babies should be announced merely by making testing available (1994, 24) . If we abort a fetus on the basis of a single trait, this symbolically suggests that not only this fetus life but the life of anyone who has this trait is not worth living or …show more content…
Why would a virtue ethicist make this choice? The virtue ethics made this choice, because of its behavior that showing highly moral standards, which includes goodness, righteousness, morality and integrity. As Plato emphasized four virtues, in particular called Cardinal virtues, wisdom, courage, temperance and justice. The virtue ethics is courage in a time of danger.
7. Finally, explain which choice or combination of choices are most appropriate or work best in handling this ethical dilemma,