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A 5 page paper which examines the issue from the liberal perspective of Mary Anne Warren and the conservative view of Professor Don Marquis. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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heated debate. The distinctions result from perceptual differences that fall along ideological lines. For example, the liberal perspective is that a womans right to choose is the most
fundamental issue at hand, whereas the conservative view contends the right to life takes precedence over any other. Two of the most outspoken individuals on both sides of the
abortion debate are social philosopher Mary Ann Warren, who has been a vocal supporter of abortion since Roe v. Wade and has written the landmark article, "On the Moral and
Legal Status of Abortion," originally published in The Monist back in 1973; and Don Marquis, a philosophy professor at the University of Kansas, who articulated his anti-abortion stance in a
number of articles beginning with 1989s "Why Abortion is Immoral," which was first published in the Journal of Philosophy. Mary Ann Warren (1996) begins formulating her pro-abortion position by first
defining what she interprets abortion to be, which is "the act which a woman performs in voluntarily terminating, or allowing another person to terminate her pregnancy" (p. 80). She
then explains that abortion should be a perfectly acceptable practice and should not be construed as any type of moral violation, for "a fetus is not a person, and hence
not the sort of entity to which it is proper to ascribe full moral rights" (Warren, 1996, p. 80). She then maintains that the fetus cannot be regarded as
a member of the moral community "for the simple reason that it is not a person, and that it is personhood, and not genetic humanity, i.e., humanity as defined by
Noonan, which is the basis for membership in this community" (Warren, 1996, p. 82). This argument is cemented by differentiating between a person and a human being. According
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