Abortion as a Health Ethics Issue
Subject: Ethics
Consider the following case. Sarah, age 24, learns she is pregnant, and the pregnancy is 5 weeks along. She and her boyfriend had been taking precautions and were very conscientious about this; and were just unfortunate. Both are graduate students and want to continue working as teaching assistants and finish their Ph.D.s . Sarah doesn?t want to attend to a pregnancy at this time. And both do not want to rear a child. She and her boyfriend are in a committed relationship but have never talked about getting married and having a family. Both she and her partner would like the pregnancy to be terminated.
What would be the morally correct way to view this situation according to either Don Marquis (BE) or Judith Jarvis Thomson (BE) and why(I will upload these two article to you in additional files)? In 230-250 words summarize and critically evaluate either Marquis? article or Thomson?s article. Do you find the author?s arguments convincing? What would be the morally correct way to view this situation according to Susan Sherwin (BE) and why? In 230-250 words summarize and critically evaluate her arguments. Do you find them convincing? Make sure you make clear how Marquis?/Thomson?s and Sherwin?s arguments differ. In your critique insert your own perspective on this situation. You may agree with any of the theorists or some other ethical theorist on abortion in our text, BE, or elsewhere. Refer to aspects of the moral theories we have been looking at (Kantianism, Utilitarianism and Care Ethics) to support your claims. So, for example, refer to rights, autonomy, responsibilities, duties, rules, laws, justice, or care of the vulnerable. You may do research outside of the discipline of philosophy but remember this is a philosophy paper and not, for instance, a sociology or biology paper. Any material you present should illuminate or support claims and arguments. 600 words.
Your essay should have a brief introduction (a few sentences) and a brief conclusion (a few sentences). Do not restate the case in your essay. Your entire essay (without the reference section) should be approximately 600 words. Marks will be deducted if you go more than 75 words under or over the word length. Please put a word count on your first page; do not include a title page. In your introduction get to the point immediately about what you will be up to step by step in the paper. Your conclusion should briefly sum up what you have argued and shown.
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