Conservatives on the Abortion Issue Charge That Liberals' Standards for Personhood

question 21

Multiple Choice

Conservatives on the abortion issue charge that liberals' standards for personhood imply that

• A) cognitively impaired individuals are persons.
• B) infanticide is never morally permissible.
• C) some infants are persons.
• D) cognitively impaired individuals are not persons.

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Definitions:

Cognition-focused

Pertaining to approaches or interventions that concentrate on improving mental processes such as thinking, memory, and problem-solving.

Classical Conditioning

A training technique in which a reaction, initially caused by a subsequent stimulus, becomes associated with an earlier stimulus following repeated pairings of the stimuli.

Phobia

An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something, significantly impacting an individual's life and choices.

Humanistic-existential

Humanistic-existential psychology focuses on individual experience and personal growth, emphasizing personal responsibility, free will, and the meaning of life.