Social And Personal Ethics: The Subject Of Abortion
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It’s a child not a choice, a famous bumper sticker that voices the opinion of people who oppose abortion. In the book Social and Personal Ethics, John T. Noonan Jr., a law professor at University of California Berkeley, and Mary Anne Warren, a philosophy professor at San Francisco State Univers ....
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.... own genetic code and cannot be duplicated.
Now, the opposing views expressed by Mary Anne Warren and her definition of a human being has two parts a genetic and moral. She argues that genetic part is not necessary or sufficient for personhood and she argues that are not persons in the moral part does not have characteristics that are central to personhood. She has six concepts that define central personhood and they are sentience, emotionality, reason, the capacity to communicate, self-aw ....
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