Label the Following Examples of Method II Arguments (Regarding Abortion)

question 30

Short Answer

Label the following examples of Method II arguments (regarding abortion) as examples of what kind of life has moral worth: Species Criterion (S), Modified Species Criterion (MS), Strict Potentiality Criterion (SP), Modified Potentiality Criterion (MP), or Actual Possession Criterion (A). There are some human beings that do not have full moral status because they do not actually have the ability to think and communicate, for example, those in a persistent vegetative state.

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Definitions:

Temporal Relationship

The relational concept that denotes the timing and sequence of events or variables as they occur over time.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any conditioning.

Successive Approximations

A series of gradual steps, each of which is more similar to the final desired response.