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Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos - A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos - A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 111
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"Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to
beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of
higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is
impermissible to kill only persons. As a consequence, a consensus
is reached regarding the permissibility of both destroying human
embryos for research purposes and abortion. The present collection
aims to interact critically with this consensus. Authors address
various aspects of this 'orthodoxy'. Issues discussed include:
theories of personhood and in particular the role of thought
experiments used in support of such theories; the notion of an
intrinsic potential and the moral relevance of having one; new
formulations of the virtue argument against abortion rights;
four-dimensionalism and abortion; the notion of moral status and
who (or what) has it; scientific accounts of what a human being is,
as well as addressing empirical evidence of fetal consciousness;
and analysis of the public policy implications given the epistemic
status of pro-choice arguments. Given the issues discussed and that
the arguments in critical focus are fairly new, the collection
provides a novel, comprehensive, and rigorous analysis of
contemporary pro-choice arguments."
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