Despite the fact that both she and the fetus has the equal right to life, opponents of abortion would still consider it wrong to preform an abortion with reasons ranging from killing an innocent person is always wrong and is murder to one must always prefer letting a person die to killing a person. J.J. Thomson would respond to say that these reasons are all false if we consider that the mother is only preforming an abortion in order to save her own life and not for personal interests. Hence abortion should be considered morally permissible in such situations when the life of the mother is threatened by the fetus. In order to determine whether abortion is permissible in cases where the mother’s life is not in immediate danger, we should analyse whether the fetus truly has the right to live. Take for example, rape.
The main ethical issue is that many people, due to their religion or personal opinion believe that destroying human embryos is a form of murder. However many other people believe it is furthering our knowledge of science. I personally believe that scientific research is very important to our everyday lives, as it brings us new understandings and knowledge on how the world works. Although the opposite opinion of my own is very hard to justify as it is considered unnatural and wrong, I believe that the benefits for curing diseases and repairing important parts of the body, out way the negatives. Scientists have also begun looking at adult specialised cells, and figuring out how to make them unspecialised again so this ethical problem won’t be an issue anymore.
So many questions in regards to the potential benefits of this research were left unanswered, and all I could focus on were the many, drastic and terrifying dangers that such breakthroughs in the fields could pose. By the time I had finished reading Bill Joy's article, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" I had made up my mind. Any further research in genetic engineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and robotics poses too great a threat to our environment, ourselves, and our world itself to be allowed to continue. I am not the only one concerned, Stephan Herrera, who wrote the article “Preparing the World for Synthetic Biology” states that there are legitimate concerns in regards to synthetic biology. (Herrera1).
It is your right to believe in what you want, so is abortion good or bad? Abortion is the “termination of a pregnancy”. So for the anti abortionist this is considered slaughtering the baby. They believe that the fetus is actually a separate human life form. So if one has an abortion it is considered murder.
When does life start? 3. What is the societal implication of abortion? Most Catholics and Protestants would agree that abortion is unacceptable on the grounds that humans are made in God's image and therefore it is a grave sin to kill anything human (Christians therefore believe all humans are equal in value). They provide evidence for the idea that life starts at conception with biblical quotes like "the days ordained to me were written in your book before one even came to be" and "your eyes saw my unformed body" suggesting that our personhood in God's view starts at as soon as the egg is fertilised.
Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal? Dion O. Hales SOC120 Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Prof. Theodore Framan June 22, 2012 Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal? While killing yourself is harder than having someone do it for you is that killing yourself requires firmer resolve, Should euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide be legal? Because a patient's last will and last testament should be honored, a competent patient's request to terminate life-sustaining treatment, and it is our moral right to prevent a person from suffering if they suffer from a disease we cannot cure. First, Should euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide be legal?
The Dangers of De-extinction Scientists continuously make progresses in the technological, environmental, medical, and genetic world. One topic related to genetic manipulation has currently been a hot debate amongst scientists and public alike as it involves using the past with the modern world’s technology to create a better future. It now appears that it is possible to create living species that have gone extinct using biotechnology and DNA samples from the ancient past. This process is called “de-extinction”. Conservationists, geneticists, and biotechnologists support this idea because of the technological and scientific challenges involved.
Legalizing Marijuana Pamela Horton SOC 120 Introductions to Ethics & Social Responsibility George Greaves October 29, 2012 Some people believe that marijuana is not a drug it is a plant. Many my agree that it is a natural herb planted to help cope with stress of everyday hectic lives. Anything that alters your state of being, or have you doing things out of the norms is a drug. The pro-legalization argument was that if we legalize marijuana it could not be controlled and the efforts to try to control marijuana uses causes more problems than they solve. I feel that if we legalize marijuana we would have a bunch of fried brain lunatics running around committing all kinds of crimes.
However, the pro-legalization Americans respond in saying increased marijuana use has no lasting health effects, legalization will allow for better regulation of distribution, and marijuana legalization will reduce alcohol consumption in America. There is no empirical data to support that marijuana use will increase when legalized or that we will see an increase in automobile crashes. Those who are not necessarily marijuana users but support legalization argue that the financial benefits of legalization outweigh the negative implications that come with
An abortion is defined as a “premature expulsion of a fetus so that it does not live” (Dr. O’s Lesson 7 Notes, 6). It is an important matter, as it deals with the life of a potential human being, and therefore it creates a separation between people based on their positioning against or for abortions. The views of Pro-Life (anti-abortion) or Pro-Choice (pro-abortion) eventually relies on their moral value which stems from religious value, and their education, and logic. This brings about the main argument that anti-abortionists (Pro-Life) have which is “An abortion is the deliberate killing of a human being. As such, it is a murder.