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Giermin Sahagun

Essay for "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect"

  According to Foot, the Doppler effects is define as the algorithm of solving all moral

problems which will have a good and bad effects !t is also sa"s even there is effects is good

when do bad things #intentionall" it will alwa"s be wrong $owever sometimes it is allowed to

good action despite it has a bad outcome and also it must follow four conditions in order the act

is allowable% First, it must be #the Nature of the act #which is defining as the act itself is good,

second “Means of End Condition& is means that one must not intend even but the tolerate it is

the foreseen, third “Right-ntention Condition& it means that the good deed must not come as

a result of the evil effect, lastl" “The Pro!ortionality Condition “it means the foreseen good

must be e'ual in the ph"sical evil and not the moral evil And the purpose of this doctrine is to

(now the distinction between doing what is right and wrong when it is used for abortion basicall"

it is a her guide to chose what is morall" acceptable

)he first conceptual distinctions that she ma(es use in the service of her anal"sis, is the

stor" of the fat man stuc( in the cave and there are bunch of people inside of the cave and there

are stic(s of d"namite ,so either the" drown or blow the fat man *ither wa"s the fat gu" will die

an"wa"s !t will be +ust seen as the foreseen conse'uence of blowing him up either the want

to blow him up to smaller pieces or blast him out of the cave - the point is doesn.t mean that it

does not matter what "ou bring about as long as "ou merel" foresee and do not strictl" intend

the evil that follows /ne good eample% )he stor" of the merchant selling the poison coo(ing oil

even the" (new the" will (ill innocent lives same thing with the unemplo"ed grave diggers who

happen to got a hold of this oil either sold it or gave it wa", !n order to have income, so the

difference the cave stor" and oil stor" )he oil stor" did evil intentionall" to do well

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  )he Second conceptual distinctions that she ma(es use in the service of her anal"sis is

the stor" of the +udge going to frame an innocent man for the un(nown suspect of the mass

(illing , if he didn.t frame an person there will be a full scale riot and more mass (illing will

happen and more innocent lives will perish if the +udge to persecute someone !f the victim

proves hard to hang he must see to it that he dies another wa" )o choose to eecute him is to

choose that this evil shall come about, and this must therefore count as a certaint" in weighing

up the good and evil involved )he distinction between direct and obli'ue intention is crucial

here, and is of great importance in an uncertain world evertheless this is no wa" to defend the

doctrine of double effect a eample is the doctor has a limited amount of medicine and there

one patient needs a lot of meds in order to live then are other five patients who +ust in a small

amount of meds +ust to survive !t a battle of five verses one !t said it is the best thing to save

more lives rather than +ust one

  )he conclusion of the essa" abortion is onl" morall" acceptable if , first of all there is the

situation in which nothing that can be done will save the life of child and mother, but where the

life of the mother can be saved b" (illing the child, which similar to the stor" of the fat man in the

cave $owever (illing it intentionall" is not acceptable but !t is better to save one rather than

none, it will +ust appl" as it is a unforeseen action in the h"sterectom" the" child.s life to gone is

not intend Another case that abortion is morall" acceptable in which it is possible to perform an

operation which will save the mother and (ill the child or (ill the mother and save the child which

is parallel to the shipwrec( stor" !t is better to rescue one rather none but the person who is

going to be save the mother or the child the" will pic( the mother And lastl" (illing a child in

order to save the mother.s life b" crushing a s(ull of the child, which is morall" wrong because it

is directl" (illing the child So it is not morall" acceptable