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Applied EthicsIntermediate20 minPlanned

Abortion

Thomson's violinist, Marquis's future-like-ours argument, and why the dispute splits between what the fetus is and what it may demand

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This rung already has its place in the Applied Ethics ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definepersonhoodThomson's violinistfuture-like-ours argumentpotentiality argumentbodily autonomyright to life
Assumesmoral statusmoral patientdeontologyconsequentialismclaim right

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