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By Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph

Reproductive Ethics. By Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph. Introduction. Factors influencing Debate Issues Reproductive Assistance Contraception Reproductive Control Abortion Moral and Political Beliefs Extreme Liberal Extreme Conservative

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By Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph

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  1. Reproductive Ethics By Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph

  2. Introduction • Factors influencing Debate • Issues • Reproductive Assistance • Contraception • Reproductive Control • Abortion • Moral and Political Beliefs • Extreme Liberal • Extreme Conservative • Moderate

  3. Factors Influencing Debate • Social and Political Factors • Scientific Factors

  4. Reproductive Assistance • Low Tech • Surrogate Motherhood • Artificial Insemination • Autologous • Heterologous- • Mixed • High Tech • Hormone Therapy • In Vitro Fertilization • Donated Gametes (sperm, ova) • Sperm Injection Technique • Gift (Gamete Intra-fallopian Transfer) • Artificial Uterus • Reproductive Cloning

  5. Contraception • Abstinence • Strategic Abstinence • Condoms • Intrauterine Devices • Birth Control Pills • The Morning After Pill • Male Pill?

  6. Reproductive Control • Mate Selection • Gamete Selection • Donor Sperm • Donor Ova • Genetic Testing and Screening • Therapy • Enhancement • Sex Selection • Genetic Manipulation

  7. Abortion • History • How to Argue About Abortion • Arguments from Personhood • Descriptive Personhood • Normative Personhood • Status of the Fetus • Strict Potentiality Criterion • Graduated Potentiality Criterion • Actual Possession Criterion • Rights-Based Arguments • Plugged In Violinist • Voluntariness and Responsibility • Conflict of Claims • Rape and Incest • Save Life of Mother • Biological • Social- • Contraceptive Failure • Utilitarian Arguments (Consequentialism) • Consequences for • Fetuses • Women • Men • Society • Zealous Advocacy-Protest

  8. Moral and Political Beliefs • Morality vs. Politics • Extreme Liberal (Libertarian) • Extreme Conservative • Roman Catholic • Communitarian Virtue-Based • Various Moderate Views • Welfare Liberalism • Utilitarianism

  9. Extreme Liberal • Libertarian • Property Rights-”I own my body.” • Liberty • Self-Regarding Acts • Other-Regarding Acts • Positive Rights • Negative Rights

  10. Extreme Conservative • Roman Catholic • Life is a Gift From God • Divine Purpose • Natural Law (Natural=Good) • Purpose of Bodily Organs • Sins of the Flesh • Perversion • Sex for Fun, Masturbation, Pornography, Gay Sex, Anal, Oral, Beastiality, Pedophilia, Pederasty, Necrophilia. • Fornication • Marriage and Natural Law • Monogamy • Serial monogamy • Polygamy and polyandry

  11. Moderate Views • Welfare Liberalism • Utilitarianism

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