Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Arthur, Joyce. "Personhood: Is a Fetus a Human Being?" THE PRO-CHOICE ACTION NETWORK. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2012. .
This article is about the pro-choice view of what a "human being" actually is. It argues that since a fetus can't actually live on its own without the mother, it is not a human, also, that the mother should have the choice on whether to donate her body 7-9 months to grow this child. The article compares making abortion illegal, similar to that of forcing people to donate blood, or organs. Also, since it is subjective, and can't be scientifically proven, we can not truly answer the question and therfor must rely on the mothers personal view.
"When Does Life Begin?" When Does Life Begin? N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2012. .
This article is the pro life view o what a human being is. It argues that there are 5 simple aspects that decide whether or not something is alive, "Living things are highly organized. All living things have an ability to acquire materials and energy. All living things have an ability to respond to their environment. All living things have an ability to reproduce. All living things have an ability to adapt." (When does life begin). It argues that a fetus does not only meet these but exceeds them at the moment the sperm meets the egg.
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Thank you for sharing your articles and putting in the fine work. The first thing that I would recommend doing is simple. You should split the two summaries up into two different sections rather than one paragraph. I also think that the citations are supposed to be separate from the summery. The summaries that you gave were very well written and they seemed like they fit the articles well. The other thing that I could see that you may want to change is that there is an indent in the citation. I do not know if you are supposed to have a quotation in there but you should ask it seemed to work.
ReplyDeleteI think that if i knew your solution to what your problem is i would know why you chose these articles better. I think they both seem to argue the same side and that maybe you might want to find more citations that will argue the other side so that you can make a more neutral looking solution. There are formatting issues that im sure you will fix when it is the annotated bibliography but i would make sure to write how you will use this article in your paper in your annotation because that is one of the main reasons you have an annotation.
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