e in specific acts,"(O'Connell, 205). Although O'Connell agrees with many of the points within both of these theories, he also feels that using just one of them as your guide is not the best way of evaluation. He proposes a compromise between the two, a relational-responsibility method.

Both of these points have their weaknesses about them. The teleological/proportionalism method has a hard time filling in through time and does not always apply. Likewise, the basic goods theory has a certain degree of incommensurability which may cause conflict when deciding which life is more important the mother's or the child's? The combining of these two methods into the third alternative allows people to judge for themselves by determining all the surrounding fact

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