Reactive Questions
1. Should Tina’s pregnancy continue, or should Jeff consider abortion as an option, both for the sake of Tina’s health and out of concern for the viability of the fetus?
2. Does the fetus have moral status and deserve continued medical treatment, or is the viability of the fetus questionable enough to merit Jeff focusing primarily upon restoring the health of Tina?
3. What is the Christian view of the worth of human persons?
4. How might different moral status theories lead Jeff to make different decisions?
Resources
Banner, M. (2014). The ethics of everyday life: Moral theology, social anthropology, and the imagination of the human. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Beckwith, F. J. (2007). Defending life: A moral and legal case against abortion choice. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Best, M. (2012). Fearfully and wonderfully made: Ethics and the beginning of life. Sydney, Australia: Matthias Media.
Cherry, M. J. (2017). Created in the image of God: Bioethical implications of the imago Dei. Christian Bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, 23(3), 219–233. doi: 10.1093/cb/cbx009
