Discussion Questions 11/17 Please type your answers



Discussion Questions 11/17 Please type your answers.

St Thomas Aquinas (5 pts)

Is continuation of the human race so important that anything that intervenes with this is to bad that only homicide is worse?

Aquinas thinks that in humans a single parent cannot normally care adequately for her offspring. Defend this position.

Society and the Fertile Woman: Contraception (5 pts)

I am a taxpayer. I do not want to subsidize people who want sex without children, by providing them with free contraceptives. Am I being reasonable? Would it be more reasonable if I were asked instead to help support children whose parents could not provide for them?

My religious convictions are that contraception is wrong and I never use birth control. Do I have a right to force my views on others by making contraceptives unavailable to them? If I do so force others, what reason can I give them?

Margaret Sanger (5pts)

Morality and Birth Control: Sanger asserts that women cannot call themselves free if they don’t control own body. What does she mean? To what extent does contraception provide such control? To what extent do you agree or disagree with Sanger’s assertion? Why?

What does Sanger mean when she says thinking of pregnant women as expectant mothers?

No Healthy Race… Describe the tone Sanger uses in this essay. Does it offend you in any way?

What is Sanger saying when she writes “the question of Birth Control illuminates the present slavery of motherhood in America”.

Abortion (5 pts)

What danger is there in the idea discussed in this reading of “thinking of pregnant women as expectant mothers”?

How is a woman’s freedom to choose abortion related to her ability to control her own sexuality? Why is it naïve to suppose that a woman can prevent an unwanted pregnancy by avoiding sexual intercourse?

(5 Pts) Compare and contrast: The rights of babies found in Sanger No Healthy Race, and the alternatives to abortion found in the article relating to abortion.

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