"A Defense of Abortion" Self-Quiz

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. What has traditionally be the focus of arguments about the morality of abortion, according to Thomson?

Whether the fetus's right to life outweighs the mother's right to make decisions about her body correct incorrect

Whether the fetus is a human being or not correct incorrect

Whether the mother has a special responsibility to the fetus correct incorrect

Whether the fetus has the right to life correct incorrect

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. Which of the following best characterizes the anti-abortionist's reasoning?

Fetuses are human beings, so it is wrong to kill them. correct incorrect

It is unjust to abort a fetus correct incorrect

Mothers have a special responsibility to fetuses, so it is always wrong for a mother to decide to abort a fetus. correct incorrect

Fetuses have a right to life, which is more stringent than the mother's right to decide what happens with her body. correct incorrect

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. By the "extreme view," Thomson means . . .

The view that abortion is always morally permissible. correct incorrect

The view that it is morally impermissible to unplug oneself from the violinist. correct incorrect

The view that even if keeping the fetus risks the mother's life, aborting it is morally impermissible. correct incorrect

The view that even in the case of rape, aborting the fetus is morally impermissible. correct incorrect

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. Thomson rejects the notion that the right to life is the right to the bare minimum required for living because . . .

It is unjust for someone's right to life to impose on another person's right to life. correct incorrect

Because the right to life only has to do with being protected from direct killing. correct incorrect

Having the right to life doesn't entail one has a right to use another person's body. correct incorrect

None of the above. correct incorrect

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. Thomson brings up the Good Samaritan and the Minimally Decent Samaritan to make which of the following points?

That nowhere is the minimum expectation of a decent person that they be willing to give up 9 months of their life for the sake of another's life correct incorrect

That having an abortion might mean one is failing to be a Minimally Decent Samaritan, but this isn't morally wrong correct incorrect

That we have a duty to rescue, and so mothers also have a duty to refrain from abortion correct incorrect

That we should only legally require people to be Minimally Decent Samaritans, not Good Samaritans correct incorrect

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. Thomson argues that abortion is always morally permissible.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Thomson's essay challenges the idea that fetuses have the right to life.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Thomson argues that if one ought to do something, that implies that someone has a right to that person doing that thing.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect