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PHI332 : The Class : Argument ID : Topic Sentence : Exercise 2.12.4
Mark the topic sentence in the following paragraph with an arrow. Strike through any discounted or background information. Look for restatements, too! Then diagram the argument in the paragraph.
The moral right to control one's own body does apply to cases of organ transplants,
mastectomies, contraception, and sterilization; but it is not a conceptualization
adequate for abortion. The abortion dilemma is caused by the fact that 266 days
following a conception in one body, another body will emerge. One's own body
no longer exists as a single unit but is engendering another organism's life.
This dynamic passage from conception to birth is genetically ordered and universally
found in the human species. Pregnancy is not like the growth of cancer or infestation
by a biological parasite: it is the way every human being enters the world.
Strained philosophical analogies fail to apply: having a baby is not like rescuing
a drowning person, being hooked up to a famous violinist's artificial life-support
system, donating organs for transplant-or anything else (368).
Once you have completed this excercise you should:
Go on to Topic 13: Sample Quizzes
or
Go back to Topic Sentence Conclusions
E-mail George Rudebusch at George.Rudebusch@nau.edu
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