Writing Assignment 4: Protecting the Unborn at Work

Directions: Read the following case study: “Protecting the Unborn at Work” (Case 9.4, pp. 348-350 in your textbook). Once you have finished reading the article, write a 2 page paper in which you respond to question: Evaluate fetal protection policies from the egoistic, utilitarian, and Kantian perspectives. What rights are involved? What are the likely benefits and harms of such policies? Make sure you explain why an egoist, a utilitarian, and a Kantian would reason as they did.

It is all right if you slightly exceed the 2-page limit. However, no paper should be more than 5 pages in length. Do not waste space retyping the question or summarizing the article. Use the space allotted to answer the question.

This paper should be written entirely in your own words. If you must quote from the article, quotations should be kept short (no more than 10 words in length). There should not be more than two quotations in this paper. Quoted language must be placed in quotation marks and followed by a citation. Failure to do so is plagiarism. Plagiarized assignments will receive a 0.

No outside sources of any kind may be used when writing this paper. People using outside sources will receive not receive credit for this assignment. All the information that you need to answer the question is contained in your textbook.

Papers should be double-spaced with standard margins. Use 12-point Times New Roman type (the same size and font used in these directions). Pages should be numbered.