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1. Clearly explain the difference between active euthanasia, passive euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. use examples to help clarify your answer. Also, explain one consequentialist and one nonconsequentialist consideration that arises in relation to euthanasia.
2. What is the main criticism that James Rachels (in the article 'Active and Passive Euthanasia') gives of the American Medical Association's statement (page 181)? Make sure to explain what the Smith and Jones (page 183) examples are supposed to establish about the distinction between killing and letting die.
3. analyze the key arguments either for or against the morality of abortion given your reading of the two articles assigned ("A Defense of Abortion" by Judith Jarvis Thomson and "Why Abortion Is Immoral" by Don Marquis). The focus is on your understanding of the debate as presented in the two articles. Summarize and analyze the core elements of each article while providing citations for main ideas and quotes.
More specifically, in the Judith Jarvis Thomson article make sure to explain, clarify and analyze the violinist example, the people seeds example and how she explains what right to life really means.
Also, make sure when discussing the Marquis article to explain: the type of moral reasoning he uses (i.e. is it deontological, utilitarian, etc.), how he analyzes why it is wrong to kill an adult human being and what he says about contraception.
Finally, which view you find to be more rationally (not emotionally) persuasive and why.