- What are the boundaries of the moral community? Is the embryo/fetus inside or outside? Does the community have levels? If the embryo/fetus is inside, on what level does it exist?
- What is a person? Is personhood relevant to the abortion controversy?
If so, how and why? What is the importance of potential personhood?
- Is the embryo/fetus the kind of being that can have rights?
If so, what rights does it have and why? What is their basis?
- If the moral status (i.e., relationship to the moral community) of an embryo/fetus/infant changes over time, when and why does it change? How do these changes relate to the abortion controversy?
- What is the scope of a woman's right to control her body,
to defend her life and health, or to preserve her personal freedom?
- How important is the mother's degree of responsibility for
her pregnancy? Does it change her obligations to her child?
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