Ethics

Ethics Our group supports the definition of a human being states by Professor George and Dr. Gomez-Lobo as “an embryonic, fetal, infant child, and adolescent stages are all stages in the development of a determinate and enduring entity which is a human being.” A person is defined by their psychological capacities, such as self-awareness and the ability to communicate. The moral implications of confirming or denying that something is a person is that some may argue that if a fetus is not a human being, then it does not deserve full moral respect. However, our group has reached the conclusion that even if the fetus is not a complete person, it has the potential to be one and therefore deserves full moral respect. In forming an argument that the fetus is not a human being, one could plead that in early stages of development; the fetus is not self-aware and can not communicate which means that it is not a person. According to Mary Anne Warren, there are five central traits to the concept of personhood, consciousness, reasoning, self-motivated activity, the capacity to communicate, and the presence of self-concepts. If following this definition, the fetus would person, human, fetus, being, argument, one, because, conception, therefore, stages, persons, moral, group, development, communicate, soul, self-aware, respect, moment, gomez-lobo, full, fetuses, fact, even, embryonic, dr, definition, consciousness, confirming, conclusion, complete, beginning, becomes, aristotle, according