Deck 11: Abortion

Question 1

RU486 induces abortion by

A) preventing the blastocyte from embedding in the uterine wall.
B) replacing the amnioitic fluid with saline.
C) inducing uterine contractions.
D) inducing early labor.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

According to the Roe v.Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling,abortion is not permissible beyond the 12th week of fetal development.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

According to utilitarian reasoning,abortion is morally unjustified if it will lead to more unhappiness than happiness.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The ratio of boys to girls in some sections of China today is

A) 96:100
B) 115:100
C) 124:100
D) 120:100

Question 5

The women least likely to have abortions are

A) Black.
B) Hispanic.
C) White.
D) Poor.

Question 6

The Roe v.Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling on abortion asserts that a woman should always have a right to abortion if she so chooses.

Question 7

All arguments regarding abortion depend on decisions regarding the moral status of the fetus.

Question 8

According to the Roe v.Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling,there is a fundamental right to privacy.

Question 9

Sex-selective abortion is legal in

A) the U.K.
B) Canada
C) Germany
D) the U.S.

Question 10

According to the species-based criterion of "Method II",in order to have full moral value and a right to life an individual must have certain person-making characteristics,such as the ability to reason.

Question 11

In using "Method I" to determine the morality of abortion we need to pick a point in fetal development and then tell what is present and why this is significant.

Question 12

People who argue that abortions lead to a lack of adoptable babies are basing their argument on

A) Utilitarianism.
B) Natural law.
C) Categorical Imperative.
D) Egoism.

Question 13

MacKinnon listed all the following as stages of fetal development except

A) Fertilization.
B) Viability.
C) Sensory awareness.
D) Quickening.

Question 14

A blastocyst is a

A) Ball of cells.
B) Type of abortion procedure.
C) Concept the pro-life camp uses to scare women.
D) Ovum.

Question 15

To claim that before Roe v.Wade there were thousands of women dying as a result of illegal abortions is making an argument based on

A) Utilitarianism.
B) Virtue ethics.
C) Categorical Imperative.
D) Relativism.

Question 16

According to Thomson,if one has a right to life one has a right to whatever is necessary to sustain that life.

Question 17

According to the Roe v.Wade 1971 Supreme Court ruling,the right to privacy is absolute.

Question 18

If a woman says she has a right to her body,she is basing her argument on

A) Egoism.
B) Natural law.
C) Categorical Imperative.
D) Virtue ethics.

Question 19

According to Thomson and her violinist analogy based argument,if the fetus is thought to be a human being then abortion is not morally permissible.

Question 20

If some action is immoral,then it follows from this alone that it ought also to be illegal.

Question 21

To suggest that abortion may be less immoral in Kenya than in Germany is based on

A) Utilitarianism.
B) Natural law.
C) The Categorical imperative.
D) Relativism.

Question 22

What relevance does the morality of abortion have to whether or not there should be laws regulating abortion?

Question 23

Judith Jarvis Thompson creates an analogy about

A) A child able to talk within the womb.
B) A woman being denied a right to job.
C) A woman awakes to find her body being used to give life support to a violinist.
D) A man who is pregnant.

Question 24

What is the difference between Method I and Method II.

Question 25

Do all arguments regarding abortion need to determine what is the moral status of the fetus? Explain.