[HTML][HTML] Clashes of consensus: on the problem of both justifying abortion of fetuses with Down syndrome and rejecting infanticide

H Friberg-Fernros - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2017 - Springer
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2017Springer
Although the abortion of fetuses with Down syndrome has become commonplace,
infanticide is still widely rejected. Generally, there are three ways of justifying the
differentiation between abortion and infanticide: by referring to the differences between the
moral status of the fetus versus the infant, by referring to the differences of the moral status of
the act of abortion versus the act of infanticide, or by separating the way the permissibility of
abortion is justified from the way the impermissibility of infanticide is justified. My argument is …
Abstract
Although the abortion of fetuses with Down syndrome has become commonplace, infanticide is still widely rejected. Generally, there are three ways of justifying the differentiation between abortion and infanticide: by referring to the differences between the moral status of the fetus versus the infant, by referring to the differences of the moral status of the act of abortion versus the act of infanticide, or by separating the way the permissibility of abortion is justified from the way the impermissibility of infanticide is justified. My argument is that none of these ways justifies the abortion of fetuses diagnosed with Down syndrome while simultaneously rejecting infanticide. Either the justification for abortion is consistent with infanticide, or it is implausible to justify abortion while rejecting infanticide. I conclude the article by making some preliminary remarks about how one might manage the situation posed by my argument.
Springer
以上显示的是最相近的搜索结果。 查看全部搜索结果