“On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” by Mary Anne Warren
Mary Anne Warren’s argument on the legal and moral status of abortion gets based on the vital question concerning whether a fetus is a person (Wolff, 2017). She seeks to prove that a fetus is not a human being and, therefore, not worthy of full moral rights. In her argument, she states that there is no possibility of having a demonstration that is conclusive that abortion gets permitted if the fetus has a right to life. In another argument, she presents her argument in argument in the question, “how are we to define a community that is moral, beings with equal and full moral rights? Such that we can make a decision as to whether the fetus is a member of this community or not?” She has criterion raising questions concerning the moral sense and the genetic sense of humans.
Mary Anne Warren has a criterion that she uses in determining whether a fetus is a human and in her opinion, a fetus fails to fulfill any of her criteria and thus, it is not a human by any measure that is objective and thus cannot be said to be a member of the moral community (Warren, 1996). On the legal argument on the appropriate in a situation where a woman carries out voluntary termination or lets another person get rid of her pregnancy, Warren’s argument was that it should not be illegal to have an abortion because a fetus does not meet the criteria to be called human and such, she argues that a woman should not be denied access to abortion as it will be a denial of her right to.
Reference
Warren, M. A. (1996). On the moral and legal status of abortion. na.
Wolff, J. (2017). Readings in Moral Philosophy. WW Norton & Company.