Threat of Imminent Death in Pregnancy: A Role for Double-Effect Reasoning
In the Phoenix case, pulmonary hypertension threatened the life of an eleven-week pregnant mother. Removal of the placenta as the organ threatening the mother's life necessarily included extracting the amniotic membranes containing the fetus. The author proposes this argument: the principle of...
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Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Sage Publ.
2011
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Theological studies
Año: 2011, Volumen: 72, Número: 4, Páginas: 848-878 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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Sumario: | In the Phoenix case, pulmonary hypertension threatened the life of an eleven-week pregnant mother. Removal of the placenta as the organ threatening the mother's life necessarily included extracting the amniotic membranes containing the fetus. The author proposes this argument: the principle of double effect clarifies that causing the death of the fetus (destined to die, whatever transpired) while avoiding a direct physical assault on it constitutes an indirect and unintended (albeit foreseen) side effect, thereby justifying the intervention. |
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ISSN: | 2169-1304 |
Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Theological studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004056391107200407 |