Murder unquestionably violates a person's right to life. What aspects give a person a right to life? Why is it considered murder to kill an innocent person but not an animal? Are we morally superior to animals? In ethics, a being with full moral status, and therefore full moral rights, is called a person. If all human beings are persons then there is no problem. In other words, is it necessary and sufficient to be a human being in order to be considered a person?

The notion that not all persons are human beings is one that is widely held, but not recognized the slightest bit. Most Christians, for example, believe God to be a person. However, few would claim that He is a biological human being. There have to be several criteria to be considered a person.

1.) Consciousness (of objects and events external and/or internal to the being, and in particular the capacity to feel pain);

2.) Reasoning (the developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex problems);

There are many different influences on a person's decisions. Religion, media, and society all have effects on people's decisions. The choices to believe in God, or to have an abortion, are both significant topics discussed in society today. I believe that God is the meaning, cause and reason for everything, including abortion.

"You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers have canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. The director of the hospital now tells you, 'Look, we are sorry the Society of Music Lovers did this to you-we would never have permitted it if we had known. Still, they did it, and the violinist is now plugged into you. To unplug him would be to kill him. But never mind, it is only for nine months. By then he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you." (Thompson, n.p.)

When a woman is raped, she is forced to have sex without her consent. If the woman gets pregnant after she is raped, abortion sh

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