For this assignment, you will receive credit for completion, but will not be graded or assessed for your answers (I wont read what your views are). The purpose of the exercise is to determine what your own views are (and arent). Some of the questions you may find difficult to answer, and you might find that some of your answers are contradictory. So, it may expose some logical inconsistencies in your views as well as gaps in your understanding or knowledge.
For each of the statements below, simply indicate whether you agree or disagree. Afterwards, reflect upon whether your answers are consistent. For example, an inconsistent pair of answers would be agreeing with #1 but disagreeing with #4.
Moral statements
Abortion is always wrong
Abortion is always wrong for late-term (after week 20) abortions
Late-term abortions should be illegal and subject to criminal punishment
Abortion is morally permissible for early-term (before week 10) fetuses
Human embryos have the same moral standing as an adult human (should be treated as equals in ethical decision making)
Fetuses have a higher moral standing than a human embryo
Newborn babies have a higher moral standing than a late-term fetus.
Infanticide is always wrong
Abortion is morally equivalent to infanticide.
Newborn babies have the same moral standing as an adult human (newborns are persons)
Metaphysical and empirical statements
Human embryos have souls/minds
In order to have a mind/soul, you must have a brain
Before birth, fetuses are not individual organisms, but rather, parts of the mother
Early-term fetuses cannot feel pain
Fetuses are in a biochemically induced coma until birth
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