The fetus is also able to hear and respond to sound‚ and show clear signs of periods of being awake and sleep. In the second trimester the fetus will show signs of its first movement‚ also known as quickening. The expectant mother is able to feel flutters from her baby. At this time a heartbeat can be heard by stethoscope. If delivery was to happen during this time the fetus would only have a one in ten thousand chance of surviving. The unborn
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abortion. • The conservative position commonly spends most of their time establishing that the fetus is a person‚ but the moral impermissibility of abortion doesn’t follow simply from the admission that the fetus (as a person) has the right to life. In her view‚ the right to life is to be understood as the right not to be killed unjustly and does not entail the right to use another person’s body. The fetus’ right to life outweighs the mothers right to decide what happens in and to her body unless the
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whether the fetus has moral status or not. Pro-choice supporters believe a fetus does not have moral status until it is viable outside of the mother’s womb. Pro-life supporters believe the fetus has moral status at conception. If the fetus has moral status‚ then it is immoral to kill the fetus (Jones & Chaloner‚ 2007). Some believe when the heart beats‚ that signifies life. Therefore‚ when a fetus’ heart starts to beat at eight weeks gestation (Parker‚ 2007)‚ it has life. If the fetus has life
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that abortion is murder seems like more of an opinion than a fact. Actually‚ “a fetus is not legally or scientifically a person or human being so abortion cannot be equated to murder or taking a life since the fetus is not a person nor alive” ("Why Abortion Should Be Legal"). The only way a fetus is surviving is because it’s relying on a mother for nutrients‚ much like a parasite would. Now that doesn’t mean that a fetus is a parasite‚ but it is similar in the way it relies on its host. “Embryos and
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It is growing inside her as God intended it and it is a living organism. It has human properties but not necessarily cognition. The fetus is unable to understand what is right or wrong yet it has a special relationship with the mother for it is growing in her uterus and it is a part of her during that time. Marco: he supports whatever decision Jessica will make but is can’t help but
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Jessica Satterfield Glen Greenwalt Philosophy 7 December 1st‚ 2012 Film Report: Cider House Rules Review In present society‚ abortions are a legal procedure that is preformed daily. Millions of women each year exercise their right to abort a fetus before the term of viability without legal repercussions. In 1973‚ The United States Supreme Court’s Ruling in favor of Roe vs. Wade granted women the right to choose. However‚ before this imperative decision by the Supreme Court‚ illegal abortions
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people against abortion believe that killing the fetus is just like murdering a human being. Over the years Americans have been evenly split up over the subject‚ many of them thinking that it can never be solve. My opinion is that abortion should be banned with the exception for when it is used to save the mother’s life. The abortionists’ strongest argument is that a woman’s body is her own and it is her decision to do what she wants with the fetus. They think that if abortion is illegal‚ it means
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as toxemia is a pregnancy complication that can only be resolved by delivering the fetus. The mother’s BP is elevated‚ there is protein in her urine‚ and her organs are being damaged. Preeclampsia usually is diagnoses post 20 weeks gestation which is the age of a viable fetus. If a diagnosis is made earlier than 20 weeks the mother and her physician must decide whether the wait or deliver. Waiting until the fetus is viable is highly dangerous due to the fact that preeclampsia leads to eclampsia
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Nevertheless‚ there are also other philosophers who criticize Marquis’ view in order to prove that abortion is not immoral since the fetus has no right to live. One of them is Peter K. McInerney‚ who wrote Does a Fetus Already Have a Future-Like-Ours? McInerney demonstrates the fact that fetuses have little or no relationship to their own future; therefore‚ the belief that “a fetus has a right to life” fails (Brill‚ 419). In addition‚ to support McInerney’s argument‚ H. Skott Brill’s The Future-Like-Ours
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system increases every year as these women have more and more children. The beginning of life and the fetus’ viability are the two determining factors of which stance someone takes on the subject. Our moral and religious status guides our view. This frame of mind would support life beginning at birth and not conception. A human being or person is one that is aware of their existence. “Neither a fetus nor a neonate (though human) qualify as persons in the morally relevant sense because their subjective
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