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Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 111)

Editors: Napier, Stephen

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1602-5

ISBN: 978-94-007-1601-8

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jun 13, 2011

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: What Are Persons? What Is Valuable?

Napier, Stephen

Pages: 1 –16

[As of this writing, if one searches Philosophers Index© under the term “abortion” one will get back 1, 485 total entries. If one limits the search to the past 10 years (2001–2011), one will get back 427 entries (almost 30% of the literature produced has been in the last 10 years). Running the...
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I Was Once a Fetus: That Is Why Abortion Is Wrong

Pruss, Alexander R.

Pages: 19 –42

[I am going to argue that abortion is wrong in the same circumstances in which it is wrong to kill an adult. To argue further that abortion is always wrong would require showing that it is always wrong to kill an adult or that the circumstances in which it is not wrong—say, capital...
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Brain Life and the Argument from Potential: Affirming the Ontological Status of Human Embryos and Fetuses

Eberl, Jason T.; Brown, Brandon P.

Pages: 43 –65

[The moral status of human embryos and fetuses is one of the most vexed questions in bioethics and various responses often stand or fall on the answer to the question of the ontological status of such entities: whether they count as “persons,” “potential persons,” or merely “human biological...
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The Human Being, a Person of Substance: A Response to Dean Stretton

Beckwith, Francis J.

Pages: 67 –83

[Over the past decade or so several challenges to the prolife understanding of fetal personhood have been published. Two of the authors who have contributed much to this critique are Jeff McMahon and Dean Stretton. The purpose of this chapter is to respond to some of their arguments. My point of...
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The Concept of Person in Bioethics

Müller, Anselm Winfried

Pages: 85 –100

[Abortionist arguments take different forms. Three kinds of argument in particular are common: (a) the (early) human foetus is not a human being; so (an early) abortion is not a case of killing innocent human beings. (b) Killing is intrinsically wrong only when directed against persons; up to a...
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Abortion and Virtue Ethics

Lu, Mathew

Pages: 101 –123

[What can contemporary virtue ethics say about the problem of abortion? In what follows I attempt to answer that question by considering both what has been said and what we may further argue from a virtue-focused perspective. We begin by comparing virtue ethics to the two other dominant...
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Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism, and Moral Status

Hershenov, David B.

Pages: 125 –144

[Philosophy journals have been full of discussions of Four-Dimensionalism in recent years. The rich resources of the Four-Dimensional metaphysics have been brought to bear upon many traditional philosophical problems. Alas, the implications of Four-Dimensionalism for bioethics have gone largely...
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The Christian Hypothesis

Fagerberg, David W.

Pages: 145 –161

[A Catholic approach to the abortion debates requires a certain paradoxical attitude that is challenging to maintain. On the one hand, revelation anchors us in a certainty about the sanctity of human life, about which compromise, relativization, or concession is impossible. On the other hand,...
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Fetal Interests, Fetal Persons, and Human Goods

Tollefsen, Christopher

Pages: 163 –184

[The geography of the debate concerning practices destructive of the youngest members of the human species is by now rather well worked out. Of the questions to be answered, there is first the following: are you, the readers of this essay, and I, the author, and others substantially like us,...
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Fetal Pains and Fetal Brains

Howsepian, A.A.

Pages: 187 –210

[There has been a groundswell of recent scholarship on the question of whether or when unborn humans become capable of feeling pain.1 (Anand and Hickey, 1987; Colette, 2003; Commission of Inquiry into Fetal Sentience, 1996; Derbyshire, 2006, 2008; Glover, 1999; Glover and Fisk, 1996; Kolenc,...

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