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ArticleJournal of medical ethics2013

Potentials and burdens: a reply to Giubilini and Minerva.

Francis J Beckwith

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Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Substantial Goodness and Nascent Human Life.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Francis J BeckwithDepartment of Philosophy, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97273, Waco, TX 76798-7273, USA. francis_beckwith@baylor.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article responds to Giubilini and Minerva's article 'After birth abortion: why should the baby live?' published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. They argue for the permissibility of 'after-birth abortion', based on two conjoined considerations: (1) the fetus or newborn, though a 'potential person', is not an actual person, because it is not mature enough to appreciate its own interests, and (2) because we allow parents to terminate the life of a fetus when it is diagnosed with a deformity or fatal illness because of the burden it will place on the child, parent, family or society we should also allow parents to do the same to their newborn, since it is no more a person than the fetus. The author critiques this case by pointing out (a) the metaphysical ambiguity of potential personhood and (b) why the appeal to burdens is irrelevant or unnecessary.

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AdoptionFetal ViabilityMoral ObligationsPersonhoodValue of LifeAbortion, InducedBeginning of Human LifeHumansInfanticideAbortionEmbryos and FetusesNewborns and MinorsPhilosophical EthicsRights

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