Standardized Resolution · Social Issues
On balance, the majority of abortions performed in the US are immoral
Abortion is “the willful and direct termination of a human pregnancy and of the developing offspring.”
Conception is “the fusion of a sperm and egg to form a zygote.”
Immoral means “morally wrong.”
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Arguments For (3)
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I affirm the resolution: On balance, abortion is immoral. This is obviously going to be a philosophical and ethical debate surrounding the ethics of abortion and the value of the unborn. The value premise that I want to uphold is the value of human dignity. Human dignity "is the ...
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Framework:This issue should be judged on the basis of whether or not a fetus is the sort of being whose life it is seriously wrong to end. To resolve this, a necessary condition of resolving the abortion controversy is a more theoretical account of the wrongness of killing. After...
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My caseI will affirm my argument with the following syllogism:P1: An unborn child is a person from the point of conceptionP2: If an unborn child is a person, abortion is morally impermissible in the majority of casesC1: Therefore, abortion is morally impermissibleP1: An unborn ch...
Arguments Against (4)
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I want to approach this debate from a slightly different angle than the usual impasse over when personhood begins. Most discussions on abortion get bogged down in abstract metaphysics about blastocysts versus conscious adults. I think that completely misses the central physical ...
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I. Framework: Consequentialist Welfare and Contextual Virtue Ethics
The resolution asks whether, "on balance, the majority of abortions performed in the US are immoral." The phrase "on balance" demands that we evaluate abortion not as an abstract Scholastic puzzle detached from ...
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I. Framework: Moral Personhood vs. Biological Species Membership
To evaluate whether the majority of abortions performed in the United States are immoral, we must distinguish between two fundamentally different concepts that anti-abortion arguments routinely conflate: (1) geneti...
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I. Framework: The Separability of Fetal Personhood and the Right to Bodily Support
Most debates over the morality of abortion premise their entire analysis on a single metaphysical question: is the fetus a human "person" endowed with a right to life from the moment of conception...
