An Abortion & Ethics Quiz
People often think that they are very knowledgeable about ethical debates about abortion: they believe they deeply understand the arguments and why their arguments are sound and why people who disagree with them are mistaken. This quiz helps test that knowledge.
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Embryos and fetuses are alive; they're life.
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Embryos and beginning fetuses are human.
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Scientific facts about embryos and fetuses in themselves prove that abortion is morally wrong.
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Most people who believe that abortion is wrong appeal to religious reasons for their views, especially when trying to explain to others why think they abortion is wrong.
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If something is biologically human, then it has the right to life.
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Biologically human organisms and human persons are definitely the same things.
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If friendly, intelligent space aliens existed, they would be persons: also if intelligent, purposeful spiritual beings exist (e.g., angels, etc.) they are persons. So the concept of "person" is not the same as "human being," since there could be persons that aren't human beings, according to most thinkers on this issue.  
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According to the most influential theories of human rights, we have rights *just because* we are *biologically human* or are *biologically human organisms.*
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Many often-heard "arguments" both for and against abortion are mere soundbites and slogans that are "question-begging" -- they assume what they are trying to "prove" -- and appeal only to people who already accept the point of view they are intended to support.
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Beginning fetuses are "human beings."
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If fetuses are persons, then it follows that abortion is clearly and obviously wrong: at least, that is what most people who study the issue think.
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The right to life includes a right to other people's bodies, if their bodies are needed for the person to continue living, according to most people who study these issues.
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If someone doesn't have a right to something, then nobody can be obligated to provide that thing.
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Bonus: what other basic questions about abortion and ethics should people be able to answer? What are other good questions to test someone's understanding of the issues?
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