Group 4 Death, Abortion, and Animal Welfare

THE CONCEPT OF MORAL STANDING
We need to identify those to whom the moral
norms apply; that is, those who are owed
duties of beneficence, nonmaleficence, and the
other moral obligations. One way of speaking
is to refer to any being to whom we owe some
kind of duty as having moral standing. We
usually believe that humans have moral
standing, but other animals may as well.