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Physician Assisted Suicide: Promoting Death With Dignity Or Empowering Exploitation?, Laura Klodnicki
Physician Assisted Suicide: Promoting Death With Dignity Or Empowering Exploitation?, Laura Klodnicki
The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)
United States health care is intentionally moving in a direction which emphasizes patient autonomy. This mentality has caused some patients to seek control over their own death when faced with a terminal illness. Claiming the right to “death with dignity,” patients exercise the method of physician assisted suicide in order to avoid the inevitable suffering that comes along with certain disease progressions. Is such medical practice ethical? Should a patient have the choice to end her own life rather than experience the devastating pain that comes with a terminal illness? Could physician assisted suicide evolve to encompass putting to an …
Virtue Ethics And Abortion, Jacob Countryman
Virtue Ethics And Abortion, Jacob Countryman
CedarEthics: A Journal of Critical Thinking in Bioethics
Singer suggests that the argument of abortion has missed the point. He asserts that the debate should focus on if it is wrong to kill an innocent human being instead of arguing whether a fetus is or is not an innocent human being. The Pro-Choice arguments of when personhood begins are vague and, therefore, cannot provide a concrete moment of when personhood starts. Since reason can only go so far in its ability to determine ethics, this paper will explain that Singer also misses the point; rather, striving to be virtuous demonstrates that abortion is morally wrong.