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Medical Ethics
Quick questions on Abortion and the status of the embryo - SQA Advanced Higher RMPS
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when does it acquire a right to life?Show answer
Positions include: full status from conception (it is a human being, often with potentiality to become a person and, in some traditions, ensoulment at conception); gradualism (status increases through development); and personhood views, which tie moral status to capacities (consciousness, self-awareness, the ability to feel) that the early foetus lacks. Viability, the point at which a foetus could survive outside the womb, is often treated as a morally and legally significant threshold. :::
What is q1?Show answer
Why is the moral status of the foetus so central to the abortion debate? [2 marks]
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What does Thomson's violinist argument aim to show? [2 marks]
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