Using the Internet or a local newspaper, select a recent news story that involves a contemporary moral issue. Examples might include, but are not limited to:

Capital punishment
Abortion
Euthanasia
Mercy killing
Affirmative action
Cloning
Conduct further research to identify two differing proposed solutions or positions related to the news story.

Summarize the news story.
Apply the appropriate ethical theories you have studied to the two solutions/positions you identified in your research.
Compare possible outcomes of the solutions/positions represented by the ethical theories. Explain your reasoning. Be specific and give examples, using at least two outside references, to buttress your argument.