Abortion For the most robust philosophical debate, the morality of abortion should be argued based on both duty-based and rights-based ethical principles. Abortion does in fact point to both duty and rights-based ethics. The duty to care is one example of a moral duty relevant to the abortion debate. Abortion also raises the question of rights. In the case of abortion, the rights belong to several stakeholders but none more salient than the embryo/fetus/potential human being. Because it is scientifically as well as philosophically impossible to delineate any other moment in which a fetus becomes a person, it is logical to presume that the beginning of personhood is conception and not some random or arbitrary point in the gestation period. The rights of the pregnant female are less central to the abortion debate from a philosophical standpoint, because it is the fetus/embryo who stands the chance of being killed. In other words, the fetus is the primary subject and object of the abortion debate. How the female go pregnant means nothing to the morality of abortion. Abortion is immoral for three fundamental reasons: the fetus/embryo is a person; the fetus/embryo therefore has rights; and no matter what,...
Those who believe abortion is immoral understand that "biological development from the fetus to a human being is an incremental process which leaves no room for a morally significant break," (Gordon 1). It is illogical, and thus philosophically untenable, to claim that personhood starts at some later point in the development of the fetus. There is no scientific means by which to proclaim the beginning of life other than at the point of conception. The existence of a unicellular zygote proves that life exists, and that life is quintessentially human. That unicellular zygote might not yet be able to see or feel, let alone speak, but it is the unique unicellular zygote of a human being. As such, it is a person.
Ethical Theory & Moral Practice Debates about theory and practice are ancient. Each generation considers the dynamics that surround issues about the interdependency of theory and praxis to be uniquely challenging. Complexity is a variable closely linked with knowledge. As science has added layer upon layer of knowledge, decision-making dilemmas have been confounded by new and staggering concomitant factors. In concert, theoretical frameworks for social science disciplines have been adapted to
Al., 2010). Nursing and the ER The Emergency Room is often one of the most visible parts of healthcare for political debate. It is also one of the most difficult environments for a modern nurse. It is interesting that one of the founders of modern nursing had emergency experience prior to developing her overall theories. Nightingale also looked at negatives and positives that are the conditions, which could help make people recover
Teaching Ethics In the realm of psychology and education, moral education is continuing to be more and more an accepted subject. Several people in the U.S. inclusive of educators involved with education for democratic citizenship are underlining for effectual moral education of the youth because of an overall moral crisis confronting these youths. People are clamoring for announcing a moral crisis in our nation in the wake of media coverage of
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