Which of the following arguments violates Hume's Law?
A) Abortion is morally wrong because an embryo has a heartbeat by the sixth week of pregnancy.
B) Abortion is morally wrong because people shouldn't kill innocent, vulnerable human beings.
C) Donating to antipoverty organizations is morally obligatory because those organizations prevent people from dying unnecessary deaths and unnecessary deaths are bad.
D) Donating to antipoverty organizations is morally supererogatory because no one is obligated to help people he or she has never met.

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Hume's Law, or the is-ought problem, states that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is." Choice A violates this by deriving a moral conclusion (abortion is morally wrong) from a factual statement (an embryo has a heartbeat by the sixth week).

Which of the Following Arguments Violates Hume's Law