Final Ethics test

n Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that a woman's right to an abortion is based on a fundamental right to

• personhood.

• privacy.

•   potentiality.

•   viability.

The one premise that both liberals and conservatives agree on is that

• it is wrong to kill an innocent person.

   

   

   

• abortion is the killing of an innocent person.

• the fetus becomes a person at viability.

• abortion in the third trimester is always morally wrong.

According to natural law theorists, direct, intentional killing of a fetus is always morally impermissible.

• false, because it would be wrong for the person performing the abortion but not for the woman receiving the abortion because she is not directly killing the fetus

• true, because abortion fails to take into account the present and future happiness of the fetus, which is a person

• true, because the fetus is an innocent person, and it is always morally wrong to directly kill the innocent

• false, because one cannot tell if the fetus is innocent or not, and that is what determines the wrongness of the act of killing

According to Mary Anne Warren, it is possible to be a human being without being a person.

• True

• False

An act-utilitarian would hold that an abortion is morally right, depending on the rule being followed and the amount of net happiness that results from adhering to the rule.

• false, because act-utilitarians are not concerned with the adherence to rules

• false, because act-utilitarians could only reasonably hold that abortion is morally impermissible

• true, because act-utilitarians are concerned with the greatest happiness produced from an action

• true, because act-utilitarians hold that adherence to rules contributes to the overall happiness produced by an action

According to Mary Anne Warren, which of the features listed below is a characteristic of personhood?

• conscience

   

• ability to reason

• need for food and nourishment

• age

The point in fetal development when the mother can feel the fetus moving is

• fertilization.

• quickening.

•   viability.

•   conception.

Therapeutic abortion refers to

• an abortion performed to protect the life or health of the mother.

   

   

   

• medical assistance following an abortion.

• an unintended abortion.

• abortion carried out for frivolous reasons.

A being with full moral rights is considered a

• potential.

• fetus.

• human.

• person.

Which type of view holds that abortion is never, or almost never, morally permissible?

• liberal

   

   

• moral

• conservative

• moderate