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Which do the authors not hold?
{ 1 } - A zygote should not be treated as having the rights of a human person until it is absolutely certain that it is a person.
{ 2 } - The high probability of the presence of human life is equivalent in moral decisions to the practical certainty of the presence of human life.
{ 3 } - Any human person, no matter what its state of development of capacities, has the same human rights as any other human person.
{ 4 } - From conception, a human person has the same rights as its mother, and the rights of both should be equally respected.
{ 5 } - There is high probability that a human organism is a human person from the time of conception.
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Which do the authors not hold?
{ 1 } - A zygote should not be treated as having the rights of a human person until it is absolutely certain that it is a person.
{ 2 } - The high probability of the presence of human life is equivalent in moral decisions to the practical certainty of the presence of human life.
{ 3 } - Any human person, no matter what its state of development of capacities, has the same human rights as any other human person.
{ 4 } - From conception, a human person has the same rights as its mother, and the rights of both should be equally respected.
{ 5 } - There is high probability that a human organism is a human person from the time of conception.
They would hold, for example, that if there is a high probability that there is a human in an old barn that I am about to burn down, I am morally obliged not to burn the barn. I am not permitted to burn the barn, and have a high risk of killing a human, just because I am not absolutely certain that there is a person in the barn. See p. 252.
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Which do the authors not hold?
{ 1 } - A zygote should not be treated as having the rights of a human person until it is absolutely certain that it is a person.
{ 2 } - The high probability of the presence of human life is equivalent in moral decisions to the practical certainty of the presence of human life.
{ 3 } - Any human person, no matter what its state of development of capacities, has the same human rights as any other human person.
{ 4 } - From conception, a human person has the same rights as its mother, and the rights of both should be equally respected.
{ 5 } - There is high probability that a human organism is a human person from the time of conception.
They would hold, for example, that if there is a high probability that there is a human in an old barn that I am about to burn down, I am morally obliged not to burn the barn. See p. 252.
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Which do the authors not hold?
{ 1 } - A zygote should not be treated as having the rights of a human person until it is absolutely certain that it is a person.
{ 2 } - The high probability of the presence of human life is equivalent in moral decisions to the practical certainty of the presence of human life.
{ 3 } - Any human person, no matter what its state of development of capacities, has the same human rights as any other human person.
{ 4 } - From conception, a human person has the same rights as its mother, and the rights of both should be equally respected.
{ 5 } - There is high probability that a human organism is a human person from the time of conception.
See p. 252.
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Which do the authors not hold?
{ 1 } - A zygote should not be treated as having the rights of a human person until it is absolutely certain that it is a person.
{ 2 } - The high probability of the presence of human life is equivalent in moral decisions to the practical certainty of the presence of human life.
{ 3 } - Any human person, no matter what its state of development of capacities, has the same human rights as any other human person.
{ 4 } - From conception, a human person has the same rights as its mother, and the rights of both should be equally respected.
{ 5 } - There is high probability that a human organism is a human person from the time of conception.
See p. 252. For example, as it would be wrong to directly kill the mother to save the baby, it would also be wrong to directly kill the baby to save the life of the mother.
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Which do the authors not hold?
{ 1 } - A zygote should not be treated as having the rights of a human person until it is absolutely certain that it is a person.
{ 2 } - The high probability of the presence of human life is equivalent in moral decisions to the practical certainty of the presence of human life.
{ 3 } - Any human person, no matter what its state of development of capacities, has the same human rights as any other human person.
{ 4 } - From conception, a human person has the same rights as its mother, and the rights of both should be equally respected.
{ 5 } - There is high probability that a human organism is a human person from the time of conception.
See p. 252.
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