Public health, induced abortion, and spontaneous abortion
Bruce P. Blackshaw and Daniel Rodger contend that if we assume fetuses are persons, then abortion is a public health crisis that justifies overriding a gestational mother's rights and compelling her to carry the fetus to term, but dawdle addressing greater public health crises like spontaneous...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2021
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Bioethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 9, Pages: 910-915 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCB Personal ethics NCH Medical ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
public health crisis
B harm principle B inconsistency arguments B Abortion |
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| Summary: | Bruce P. Blackshaw and Daniel Rodger contend that if we assume fetuses are persons, then abortion is a public health crisis that justifies overriding a gestational mother's rights and compelling her to carry the fetus to term, but dawdle addressing greater public health crises like spontaneous abortion and hunger. They draw a distinction between deliberate and indeliberate harm to justify restricting rights in the former, but not the latter; but such distinction fails to justify restricting rights in most public health crises. Furthermore, it fails to justify curtailing abortion rights as unwilling gestational mothers might deliberately induce abortion in self-defense, merely indeliberately harming the fetus. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-8519 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "If fetuses are persons, abortion is a public health crisis (2021)"
Kommentar in "Public health ethics and abortion: A response to Simkulet (2022)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12944 |