Please read Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues, Case 16, p. 96.
Identify the moral issue(s) and the parties involved; identify what universalizable moral duties are at stake; identify how the principle of respect for persons applies to the case.
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A man and a woman, both college students have been living together off campus for 3 years. They have never considered marrying, and it has always been implicit in their relationship that each should be free to leave the other any time he or she wishes. Unexpectedly, the woman becomes pregnant. Because she is opposed to abortion, she resigns herself to having the child. When she is seven months pregnant, the man decides to leave her. One day she is out shopping for groceries, he gather is belongings, scribble a hasty note(“ our relationship was beautiful while it lasted, but it’s over”), and leaves.
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