Divide the Class into Two Groups

question 14

Essay

Divide the class into two groups.Have one side of the room read pages 52-53
on ethical relativism and apply it to the following vignette.Have the other side
of the room read pages 53-54 on ethical absolutism and apply it the vignette
below.
Nina is a 19-year-old female in her final semester of high school.Nina has been accepted on a full scholarship to UVA for the fall semester to study English.She has been sexually active since the age of 16 and has had more than 6 partners.Nina takes the birth control pill but does not like the feel of a condom, thus oral contraception is her only line of defense.She has been dating Jimmy (age 22) for three months and discovers she is pregnant and has been infected with Chlamydia (a treatable and curable STD).Nina is considering not telling Jimmy and having an abortion.

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Definitions:

Monozygotic Twins

Twins that originate from a single zygote splitting and developing into two individuals with nearly identical genetic makeup.

Fertilized

The state of an egg cell after it has been penetrated and combined with a sperm cell, initiating the development of a new organism.

Splits

In psychoanalysis, a defense mechanism where conflicting internal attitudes or perspectives are separated from each other and not integrated.

Zygotes

are the initial cell formed when a new organism is produced by sexual reproduction, resulting from the fusion of male and female gametes.