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Themember4

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Your text distinguishes Method II approaches to questions about the moral status of a fetus as focused on determining what it is that gives human beings moral status.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

What relevance does the morality of abortion have to whether or not there should be laws regulating abortion?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

True

Answer to Question 2

Unless the two spheres of morality and the law are coincident, it does not necessarily follow that if something is morally wrong it ought to be legally prohibited and if something is morally permissible the law ought to have nothing to do with it or even encourage it.



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