SOL What Should I Include?

What Should I Include?

Introduction - This is where you basically have to outline what your answer is before you set out to prove your answer through the essay. Is the sanctity of life to be regarded as a moral absolute when looking at abortion? Yes? No? On occasions? Yes but not in the case of abortion? No but only in the case of abortion?

What is abortion? Here you will need to include a very detailed account of what abortion is. This will have to include various quotations and sources from a wide variety ( at least 5) before you make up your own definition. Explain the legal situation in the world today. Where is abortion allowed on demand? Where is it allowed with restrictions? Where is it banned? You will need to give specific laws from certain countries and refer to at least one controversial famous case about abortion and identify the dilemmas it caused for a country and public. Account for the history of abortion and try and find statistical data about why women have abortions.

What is a moral absolute? Again this will take an extensive amount of research and must include sources and quotations. You will need to look very critically at the work and writings of Immanuel Kant and the Categorical Imperative. You will also have to explore the idea of a divine law giver. To what extent does this world operate on "absolutes" - how valuable are deontological rules in the world today? How do they compare with more teleological ways of looking at the world? Do we need a combination of both?

What does the question mean by the "sanctity of life"? You will have to include extensive details of teachings from the western faiths i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam and teachings from the eastern faiths i.e. Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism. Here you will have to look at the idea that religion is very explicit in its condemnation of man interfering with the work of God – this is what abortion does. How do views on the Sanctity of life affect ideas and beliefs about life after death?

Is the sanctity of life a moral absolute? Simple in some respects as it includes a yes or no answer. However this answer needs to be justified with sound reasoning and quotations. Once you have tackled this area you will then need to refer to the issue of abortion? What changes once you bring abortion into the equation? Why?

When might abortion be permissible? Why? Here you can give specific examples of abortion cases and why they were perhaps a necessary?

Why is it not as easy today as it used to be to decide what is a moral absolute? In many respects it might be an idea to go into they idea of technology here and the advances taking place? Is ethics losing out to technology now? What about other issues regarding the sanctity of life? Are they more clear cut? To what extent can our world operate on absolute lines? How can we have a combination of both? e.g. Rule Utilitarianism? Does religion have to change to meet the demands of our modern world or if it does is it just being hypocritical to change what people believe to be divine commandments and revelation? Is it the start of the slippery slope argument?

Conclusion - You will have to sum up here all your ideas above and come to some sort of answer to the question. If you agree that abortion is a moral absolute then why, and if it is not then why?

	Introduction - This is where you basically have to outline what your answer is before you set out to prove your answer through the essay. Is the sanctity of life to be regarded as a moral absolute when looking at abortion? Yes? No? On occasions? Yes but not in the case of abortion? No but only in the case of abortion?
	What is abortion? Here you will need to include a very detailed account of what abortion is. This will have to include various quotations and sources from a wide variety ( at least 5) before you make up your own definition. Explain the legal situation in the world today. Where is abortion allowed on demand? Where is it allowed with restrictions? Where is it banned? You will need to give specific laws from certain countries and refer to at least one controversial famous case about abortion and identify the dilemmas it caused for a country and public. Account for the history of abortion and try and find statistical data about why women have abortions.
	What is a moral absolute? Again this will take an extensive amount of research and must include sources and quotations. You will need to look very critically at the work and writings of Immanuel Kant and the Categorical Imperative. You will also have to explore the idea of a divine law giver. To what extent does this world operate on "absolutes" - how valuable are deontological rules in the world today? How do they compare with more teleological ways of looking at the world? Do we need a combination of both?
	What does the question mean by the "sanctity of life"? You will have to include extensive details of teachings from the western faiths i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam and teachings from the eastern faiths i.e. Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism. Here you will have to look at the idea that religion is very explicit in its condemnation of man interfering with the work of God – this is what abortion does. How do views on the Sanctity of life affect ideas and beliefs about life after death?
	Is the sanctity of life a moral absolute? Simple in some respects as it includes a yes or no answer. However this answer needs to be justified with sound reasoning and quotations. Once you have tackled this area you will then need to refer to the issue of abortion? What changes once you bring abortion into the equation? Why?
	When might abortion be permissible? Why? Here you can give specific examples of abortion cases and why they were perhaps a necessary?
	Why is it not as easy today as it used to be to decide what is a moral absolute? In many respects it might be an idea to go into they idea of technology here and the advances taking place? Is ethics losing out to technology now? What about other issues regarding the sanctity of life? Are they more clear cut? To what extent can our world operate on absolute lines? How can we have a combination of both? e.g. Rule Utilitarianism? Does religion have to change to meet the demands of our modern world or if it does is it just being hypocritical to change what people believe to be divine commandments and revelation? Is it the start of the slippery slope argument?
	Conclusion - You will have to sum up here all your ideas above and come to some sort of answer to the question. If you agree that abortion is a moral absolute then why, and if it is not then why?