Blog 5 - How did the second contemporary issue effect your principles? Are you better able to see areas where your principles need adjusting? What adjustments need to be made? Which philosopher's position was least consistent with your own principles and why?
The second contemporary issue of abortion did not negatively effect my personal principles. I think that the mother's rights outweigh the fetus's because the woman is a full person. This fits into my social principle of natural born rights and a person being able to do what they want without the law hindering his or her decision. A woman can do what she wants with her body according the Locke and I agree with this as well.
The only area where my principles need adjusting is in a case where the mother wants to terminate the fetus past the point where the fetus is pretty far along in development. I think that even if the woman wants the abortion, the baby has rights once is developed. This goes against my principle of libertarianism being that the law is hindering the woman's choice. However, once the fetus can be counted as a human, I think the baby's rights are more important than the mother's.
John Noonan's position was least consistent with my own principles because I think that abortion should not be outlawed with just the exception of self-defense. I think that a woman should be able to abort her fetus, while it still counts as a fetus and not a person. I disagree with his view that the fetus is just an unnamed "it" until birth. I believe that the fetus is not an "it" once it reaches the point in development where it can still live if taken out of the womb, not until after it is born.
I commented on this blog: http://evangerry.blogspot.com/
I commented on this blog: http://evangerry.blogspot.com/
I couldn't agree with your blog post more. I kind of felt torn between choosing a side, because I do believe that it is a womans choice to do with her body as she pleases, and the government should have no say as to what that is. However, when it came to partial-birth abortion or late term abortion it really tore at me because at that point I feel as though the child has a greater chance of surviving outside of the womb. Therefore those types of abortion to me seem as though they are cheating the child out of life; and that to me is unjust.
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