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Parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction, challenges abortion debates. This study refutes arguments that parthenogenesis grants ova a future-like-ours (FLO), thus resolving ethical dilemmas concerning abortion and contraception.

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Area of Science:

Reproductive Biology
Bioethics
Philosophy of Science

Background:

Parthenogenesis is asexual reproduction where an ovum develops without fertilization.
Don Marquis's future-like-ours (FLO) argument posits that killing is wrong if it deprives a being of a valuable future.
Tomer Jordi Chaffer and Bruce P. Blackshaw have used parthenogenesis to challenge Marquis's FLO argument regarding abortion ethics.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the implications of parthenogenesis for Marquis's future-like-ours (FLO) argument.
To critically evaluate Chaffer's and Blackshaw's challenges to Marquis's FLO argument.
To demonstrate how Marquis's theory of identity resolves the paradoxes presented by parthenogenesis.

Main Methods:

Philosophical analysis of identity criteria in reproductive biology.
Logical deconstruction of arguments concerning potentiality and personhood.
Examination of the concept of a 'future-like-ours' in relation to asexual reproduction.

Main Results:

Parthenogenesis does not grant an ovum a future-like-ours (FLO) in the sense relevant to Marquis's argument.
Neither Chaffer's nor Blackshaw's interpretations of parthenogenesis successfully undermine Marquis's FLO argument.
Marquis's account of numerical identity inherently rules out the absurd implications proposed by Chaffer and Blackshaw.

Conclusions:

The ethical considerations surrounding abortion, based on Marquis's FLO argument, remain unaffected by the possibility of parthenogenesis.
Marquis's theory of identity provides a robust framework for understanding personhood and potentiality in reproductive contexts.
This analysis reinforces the philosophical basis for the moral status of fetuses within the FLO framework.