PBA105H: Personhood and Human Rights

  • Do you believe in human rights? Shouldn't all human beings have human rights?
    • FIXME subjectivity of personhood= works better in the functionalism seminar
  • Basic argument for personhood
    • Size
    • Level of Development
    • Environment
    • Degree of Dependency
  • Abortion as age-based discrimination, a human rights violation

– The history of legal personhood is “A nice little narrative of oppression, discrimination, and even genocide” - Justina Van Manen

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