• Do you think that you understand this concept of moral status? What is hard about it? Do you understand what possible

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• Do you think that you understand this concept of moral status?What is hard about it? Do you understand what possible defectsthere are for any suggested criteria for moral status, and why thismakes it so hard to come up with a satsfictory theory of moralstatus?
• What is your moral analysis of the abortion subject? [Legally,there are some other issues, of course: constitutionality,enumerated constitutional rights, federalism - having to do withwhat decisions devolve onto the states - and also a recurrent issueis: should it be up to the courts or is it something that should bedecided legislatively? We don't look into those subjects in thiscourse. The issue is preponderantly moral - see recent opinion formajority: the moral aspect of the subject is highlighted by thejustice who delivered the majority opinion.]