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A 6 page discussion of the ethics of abortion. The author approaches the topic from a consequentialist/nonconsequentialist view and incorporates the arguments of Aristotle, Kant's (deontological) categorical imperative of reason, and Mill's (teleological) utilitarian approach. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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is right or wrong can be argued from a number of perspectives. Most that support abortion contend that there is a difference in a fetus or embryo and an
individual that has already been born. This would be the non-consequentialist approach, the approach that the killing of a fetus or embryo has no moral consequences because they do
not classify as a life. Those that oppose abortion contend that life starts at conception and that it is no more justifiable to kill an embryo or a fetus
than it is to kill someone that has already been born. This, of course, would be the consequentialist approach. These arguments are particularly interesting when approached from Aristotelian,
Kantian, and Utilitarian approaches. In summarizing the arguments against abortion presented by Germain Grizez, fellow ethicist Paul M. Cox presents the
argument that Grizezs view of the human embryo and fetus as a moral person would have been supported by Aristotle. Coxs argument is particularly interesting given that at the
time it was written he was not only a faculty member at the International School of Theology but also Vice President of that school. He points out that the
insight that Aristotle provides in "On the Soul" and "On the Generation of Animals" serves as a basis for explaining the arguments that a fetus or embryo is somehow inferior
to human being that has already been born (Cox). In these works Aristotle presents the concept of potential, what an entity is yet to become (Cox).
Cox contends that Aristotle perceives the embryo and the mature being as one and the same, that there is in fact no relevant distinction.
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