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People who argue that abortions lead to a lack of adoptable babies are basing their argument on

A) Utilitarianism.
B) Natural law.
C) Categorical Imperative.
D) Egoism.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Judith Jarvis Thompson creates an analogy about

A) A child able to talk within the womb.
B) A woman being denied a right to job.
C) A woman awakes to find her body being used to give life support to a violinist.
D) A man who is pregnant.

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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The ratio of boys to girls in some sections of China today is

According to the Roe v.Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling,there is a fundamental right to privacy.

According to utilitarian reasoning,abortion is morally unjustified if it will lead to more unhappiness than happiness.

According to Thomson,if one has a right to life one has a right to whatever is necessary to sustain that life.

If some action is immoral,then it follows from this alone that it ought also to be illegal.

In using "Method I" to determine the morality of abortion we need to pick a point in fetal development and then tell what is present and why this is significant.

According to the species-based criterion of "Method II",in order to have full moral value and a right to life an individual must have certain person-making characteristics,such as the ability to reason.

To suggest that abortion may be less immoral in Kenya than in Germany is based on

What is the difference between Method I and Method II.

A blastocyst is a

Do all arguments regarding abortion need to determine what is the moral status of the fetus? Explain.

Sex-selective abortion is legal in

To claim that before Roe v.Wade there were thousands of women dying as a result of illegal abortions is making an argument based on

According to Thomson and her violinist analogy based argument,if the fetus is thought to be a human being then abortion is not morally permissible.

If a woman says she has a right to her body,she is basing her argument on

RU486 induces abortion by

The Roe v.Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling on abortion asserts that a woman should always have a right to abortion if she so chooses.

MacKinnon listed all the following as stages of fetal development except