… of embryos and foetuses has never been decisively settled, emerging technologies are
raising new issues and revealing new tensions in how we regard these early forms of human life. …

… . It’s Complicated: What our attitudes toward pregnancy, abortion, and miscarriage tell us
about the moral status of early fetuses. Can J Philos 2020;50(8):950–65.doi:10.1017/can.…

… fetuses that are not.Yet, despite our complicated attitudes toward pregnancy … early fetuses,
our moral theorizing about the moral status of early fetuses tends to assume that all fetuses at …

… Organogenesis commences during embryological development, but it does not
culminate in functional organs until the onset of circulatory function in the early fetus.22 …

… early embryos that do not indicate that they have lower moral … and fetuses in terms of moral
status, then the deaths of fetuses … to die have a greater moral status than fetuses about to die …

… early fetuses have moral status. But surely if these early fetuses have moral status, then all
early fetuses have … back when we were early fetuses, we would have lacked moral status. And …

… the fetus lacks moral status, at least early on, then killing a fetus … fetus likely stands or falls
on its moral status. If we assume a human fetus has a moral status comparable the moral status …

… of the role of human organizer cells in early embryogenesis and gestation. … into fetuses
and mature human beings, then we will have to confront the question of their moral status, since …

… moral status. No one would think that the unfortunate victims of automobile accidents lack the
same moral status … the sake of successful pregnancies that early embryos lack moral status. …

… This Article will focus on the moral status of the frozen embryo and will address the moral
status of the fetus as either a point of reference or as an additional ramification of the proposed …