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Question 1 2 pts According to Faden and Beauchamp, in authorizing, one transfers to another one's authority to implement an action but does not assume responsibility for what has been authorized. O True False D Question 2 2 pts Judith Jarvis Thomson believes that the only way to show that abortion is morally permissible is by proving that the fetus is not a person and hence does not have a right to life. O True O False Question 3 2 pts In Oregon, terminally ill adults may legally acquire prescriptions from their physicians for lethal drugs and self-administer them with the direct intent of hastening death O True O False

Answer 1

Question 1.

False.

Faden and Beauchamp identify informed consent as autonomous authorization. In authorizing, one both assumes responsibility for what one has authorized and transfers to another one's authority to implement it which means one must understand that one is assuming responsibility and warranting another to proceed.

Question 3.

True

In 1997, Oregon enacted the Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), allowing terminally ill Oregonians to end
their lives through the voluntary self-administration of a lethal dose of medication, expressly prescribed
by a physician for that purpose. The DWDA states that to participate, a patient must be: 18 years of age or older, a resident of
Oregon, capable of making and communicating health care decisions for him/herself, and diagnosed with a terminal illness that will lead to death within six months.

Question 6.

Egalitarianism , Principle

Egalitarianism is a trend of thought in political philosophy. An egalitarian favors equality of some sort: People should get the same, or be treated the same, or be treated as equals, in some respect. An alternative view expands on this last-mentioned option: People should be treated as equals, should treat one another as equals, should relate as equals, or enjoy an equality of social status of some sort. Egalitarian doctrines tend to rest on a background idea that all human persons are equal in fundamental worth or moral status.

Question 7.

Categorical imperative, Maxims

Question 8.

Therapeutic privilege means withholding relevant information from a patient when the doctor decides that disclosing more information would cause harm.

Question 9.

It deprives the victim of a valuable future.

Don Marquis has put forward a non-religious argument against abortion based on what he claims is a morally relevant similarity between killing adult human beings and killing fetuses. He asserts that killing adults is wrong because it deprives them of their valuable futures. He points out that a fetus's future includes everything that is in an adult's future, given that fetuses naturally develop into adults. Thus, according to Marquis, killing a fetus deprives it of the same sort of valuable future that an adult is deprived of in being killed and this makes abortion seriously wrong.