... abortion is allowable in these two situations and also that opponents "right to life" argument is an invalid one that must be revised. Mary Anne Warren also talks of the rights of an un-born child. She agrees with Thomson's ideas on abortion regarding rape. She has a problem with Thomson ... 's ideas on failed contraception and the analogy of the violinist though. Warren agrees with Thomson that the antiabortionist will have to say that you are obliged to stay with the violinist because he has a right to life. ... the fetus. The problem is that one cannot be held responsible for these s...

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... choose to abort at anytime during her pregnancy. Some may say that a woman's right to bodily integrity outweighs a fetus" right to life. I wish to expose the fallibility of these arguments. Warren argues that a fetus has no substantial right to life on the basis that it is not a person. She bases this belief off of a set of criteria that suggests that these ... ). This set of criteria works of the belief that any being that does not meet one of the five criteria is not a person. Warren believes that to have none of the five criteria eliminates that being from classification of a person. ...

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... moderate view. In the conservative view, abortion is always wrong. In a liberal view, abortion is always permissible and in a moderate view abortion is in between the two extremes. Mary Anne Warren, who defends the liberal view on abortion, argues that the fetus is not a person. She says that the fetus has very few features that resemble a person and that it cannot ... that one is human in the moral sense when one is "a full-fledged member of the moral community"(Warren, p 767); therefore, she believes that a woman's right to obtain an abortion is absolute. However, John T. Noonan belie...

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... right of a woman to assess her situation and decide if a baby would be either beneficial or harmful to her present life. In Mary Anne Warren's article, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, she concludes that " a women's right to protect her health, happiness, freedom, and ... an unwanted pregnancy, will always override whatever right to life it may be appropriate to ascribe to a fetus, even a fully developed one"(Warren). This indicates that it should ultimately be their decision whether to go through with the pregnancy or to terminate it. People that are against ... potential per...

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... has the right to terminate a pregnancy, at any time and for any reason. The foetus is no more human than an appendix or liver. Mary Anne Warren's Argument for Abortion is that of a liberal one. In her article, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, she writes that " A women's ... life, by terminating an unwanted pregnancy, will always override whatever right to life it may be appropriate to ascribe to a foetus, even a fully developed one."" Warren believes that abortion is legitimate because the foetus has not yet fully developed into a person and doesn't yet have moral characterist...

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... fetus might develop and start to resemble the body shape of a human, but that does not give it rights. There are two main characteristics that generally define what a human is. Warren states in her essay that humans have both a genetic and moral sense. The developing fetus inside the mother has the genetic sense since it is carrying all the characteristics that ... any case, the collection of mental capacities sufficient to provide a human being with rights is typically called "personhood". This personhood quality has power over its biological makeup (specieshood). Mary Anne Warren stat...

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... , one must be able to make decisions regarding themselves 2) being able to converse with others and hold a relationship 3) consciousness, one must be able to make rational decisions and have thought (Warren). On important aspect of being person is the ability to be aware of its surroundings and decision making. Being a pregnant is not a situation everyone gets to experience and the decision ... ...

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... risk of death associated with childbirth is 10 times greater than the rish of death from an abortion. Legal abortion is safer than a tonsillectomy, an appendectomy, and a shot of penicillin. (Warren M. Hern, Abortion Practice 23-24 [1984]) Nearly nine in 10 abortions take place early in pregnancy. Eighty-eight percent of abortions are performed during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy ... ...

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