the view that all life is of value‚ is holy and belongs to God. Christianity teaches that every person is a sacred child of God‚ made in his image. This contrasts with an atheistic position which points to the similarities between humans and other primates. This view underpins Christian responses to medical issues such as Abortion and Euthanasia. The sanctity of life principle is based on 3 main sources: Natural theology Natural Law asks what our design or purpose is as humans. One of the main concepts
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Stephanie Jimenez Mr. Nedelkow ERWC 19 September 2014 Do Animals Need A Bill of Rights? Animals on a daily basis all over the world are being mistreated and abused by many people that do not care for them. There are very few people attempting to protect these animals‚ whether they are domestic animals‚ farm animals‚ or wildlife animals. More attention should be drawn to the treatment of animals because even if we do have laws for animals and for their well being‚ many people still do
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I maintain what I said which I totally disagree. There are some people not comfortable with the idea and projects in order to protects animals. In the article “ Of primates and personhood” by Ed Yong talks about some projects about apes basically talks how “ Great Ape Project” was established in 1993 it demands a basic set of moral and legal rights for chimpanzees and apes‚gorillas bonobos and orangutans.” Yong state in his
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However‚ animals are necessary for medical research. If the Bill of Rights meant for it to end all medical research‚ what would happen? Could this affect us? Could this affect them? In the article “Of Primates and Personhood: Will According Rights ‘Dignity’ to Nonhuman Organisms Halt Research?”‚ Ed Yong‚ who is a British science journalist‚ introduces many different researchers and scientists to discuss the basic rights to the great apes. The article emphasizes
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Menkiti conflates the facticity of personhood with quality. He does this by distinguishing between muntu mutupu (a man of middling importance) and muntu mukulumpe (a powerful man‚ a man with a great deal of force). It is not clear why both persons cannot hold the status of "person‚" even though
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Aristotle and Descartes contribution to our notion of a person‚ we need to be able to understand what the term personhood’ means. Unfortunately there is no clear answer‚ with philosophers still presenting conflicting ideas. However by asking questions such as; is personhood’ identical to human being? What is the essence of a person? What relation does a person have with the world? When does personhood begin? At what point if ever does it end? And finally what makes a good person? We move closer to a set
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Personhood status and its consequences In the article‚ On the legal and moral status of abortion‚ Mary Anne Warren (1973) states that biological humanity is irrelevant‚ to achieve satisfactory evaluation on the moral permissibility of abortion we need to consider the personhood status of fetus. Through her criteria of personhood she determines that fetus is not a person; therefore‚ abortion is morally permissible. Her argument is certainly deductively valid; however‚ it is unsound because personhood
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abortion is that of personhood of the fetus. The most frequent question asked is “At what point does an embryo or fetus become a person?” Most Pro-Life groups will tell you that personhood begins at conception‚ whereas the majority of Pro-Choice groups will say that the ability to survive outside of the womb is necessary to be a human being. However‚ to answer the question on morality of abortion‚ several other points have been made that disregard the question of personhood altogether‚ which will
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may be morally permissible to end their life before birth. However‚ Warren’s premise and argument is flawed‚ and she fails to see the indications of personhood outside of consciousness. Primarily‚ moral personhood is not defined by an ability to reason‚ it is instead defined by a state of being. Philosopher Francis Beckwich‚ discusses moral personhood in relation to abortion when he discusses the substance of the human being‚ a quality which‚ he says‚ persists through change‚ “each kind of living
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On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion Mary Anne Warren’s argument that “because women are persons and fetuses are not‚ women’s rights override whatever right to life a fetus may possess” because of the characteristics of personhood and moral community that a fetus does not yet have (Warren 164) is shown through the following argument: 1) If unwanted and dangerous pregnancies occur‚ woman should morally and justifiably have the right without any restrictions to have an abortion. 2) Unwanted
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