'Pro-Choice': The embryo-fetus has no intrinsic moral status (ie, no moral status solely by
virtue of its own characteristics).'Such status is only acquired at birth or even beyond and …

It is now a common opinion in Western countries that a child's impairment would probably
place an unexpected burden on her parents, a burden that the parents have not committed …

Reasoning about the fetus is a complex, often vexing, challenge. Indeed, at the center of
some of the most provocative and difficult bioethical debates in the last decade are …

The idea of “postponed withholding,” proposed by Syltern et al.(2022), is a provocative one,
and like all good provocative ideas, provokes deeper thinking from fresh perspectives. Our …

Some people oppose abortion on the grounds that fetuses have full moral status and thus a
right to not be killed. We argue that special obligations that hold between mother and fetus …

It is commonly held that there can be no morally relevant difference between a fetus inside
the womb and about to be born and that same fetus just after it has been born. Birth, it is …

Inspired by Patrick Lee's “A Christian Philosopher's View of Recent Directions in the
Abortion Debate,” this essay raises the question of how effective philosophical arguments …

Issues surrounding human embryos are poignant and profound. Should research be
conducted on them? Should they be discarded? Should they be donated to infertile …

Most advocates of biogenetic modification hope to amplify existing human traits in humans
in order to increase the value of such traits as intelligence and resistance to disease. These …

Some have argued that embryos and fetuses have the moral status of personhood because
of certain criteria that are satisfied during gestation. However, these attempts to base …