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Contemporary Moral Issues. He notes a number of definitions for the word “person.” The definitions are an important aspect of moral argumentation on abortion. Is a just-fertilized egg cell a person? (Hinman uses the word “criterion,” rather than “definition,” but a criterion is basecally the same thing. A is a criterion for B if it is necessary that any A is also a B.) All of the definitions that Hinman uses are flawed and are used to support some hidden agenda. Choose any two of these definitions, show how they are flawed, and specify the hidden agenda.
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