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Mary Anne Warren’s argument on the legal status of abortion stands on a concrete understanding and realization of an individual’s personhood. Now Mary Anne Warren’s unyielding argument on the basis of personhood is that, “If we assume that an entity is a person just because it happens to belong to our favored biological classification, we stand convicted of speciesism, close cousin to racism. There are properties that do qualify an entity as a person, but simply being human is not one of them” (124)

Mary Anne Warren asserts that a community of humans constitutes the moral community. According to her, everyone is entitled to a complete set of moral rights, including the right to life, if it is a person. What is a person in the moral sense? According to Mary Anne Warren, she believes that there are criteria to meet in order to be deemed a person. She has a list of five criteria. However, she says that an entity does not have to have all attributes to be considered a person. The first criteria

Mary Anne Warren argues in the position that abortion is morally permissible because the fetus is not a person therefore has no rights and not considered immoral to be killed. I shall argue that Warren’s argument in invalid since the claims of argument cannot be proven. The general argument made from Warren is (1) If a person, they have the right to life, (2) The fetus is not considered a person, and (3) Therefore, since the fetus is not a person they do not have a right to life. Also, (4) A

Throughout her article "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion," Mary Anne Warren breaks down her reasoning as to why abortion, at any stage of pregnancy, should be morally and legally permissible in society. Warren bases her article upon her point of view of the moral community so as to diminish doubts that readers may have on the notion that abortion is morally acceptable. Throughout the course of this essay, I will endeavor to explain Warren's view of the moral community as well as how it influences

Mary Anne Warren’s argument on the legal status of abortion stands on a concrete understanding and realization of an individual’s personhood. Now Mary Anne Warren’s unyielding argument on the basis of personhood is that, “If we assume that an entity is a person just because it happens to belong to our favored biological classification, we stand convicted of speciesism, close cousin to racism. There are properties that do qualify an entity as a person, but simply being human is not one of them” (124)

Mary Anne Warren is a proponent of abortion and would agree with Sister Margaret McBride’s and St. Joseph’s Hospital’s decision to go through with the abortion whether or not the mother’s life was in danger. Warren believes that the most important moral issue regarding abortion is the moral status of the fetus. Warren states that “the moral community consists of all and only people, rather than all and only human beings” (On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, p. 54). Warren finds this distinction

Abortion is the process by which an embryo or fetus is removed from the uterus, resulting in the termination of a pregnancy. Natural or non induced abortions are commonly known as miscarriages. Abortion has had a long and passionate history. It has been induced through various methods ranging from, herbal medicines, and the use of sharpened tools, physical trauma, and other traditional methods. The different legal and cultural views on abortion differ around the world, and in many regions of the

Perspective of Mary Anne Warren on Keeping Abortion Legal Works Cited Missing Mary Anne Warren is one of the top advocates for keeping abortion legal without any restrictions on it. She states that the morality of abortion is dependent on the moral status of the baby, not simply on the rights of the mother. She criticizes those who defend abortion as the right to control one's body: "it is at best a rather feeble argument for the permissibility of abortion. Mere ownership does not give me the

Braxton L. Wages Mrs.Scott English 8 3 March, 2017 ​ Elijah McCoy Elijah McCoy was an African American who had may inventions that changed the world of train travel, but faced many hardships along the way. Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada, and was later sent to Edinburgh, Scotland by his parents to study mechanical engineering, he then moved to Detroit, Michigan. Due to racism he could only get a job as a fireman or oilman on a steam-engine train. McCoy 's first invention

During Anne Hutchinson’s life at Massachusetts Bay, she had come upon a set of beliefs through her own studies and ideas with them help of John Cotton, a minister and theologian. From the reading, it appeared that her beliefs were different compared to the original Puritans. For instance, she believed that salvation only came from faith, enslaving Indians was wrong, and that God came to her through an “immediate revelation” without the need of the clergy. In result, this showed a threat to the colony