… It might be claimed that early abortion requires some moral justification not because the
early fetus that dies in the abortion has some moral status, but because the early fetus's life has …

… has no moral status”(311). From this Harman denies the view, … early fetuses have moral
status or all lack moral status. Further, she recognizes that “[i] f early abortion requires any moral …

… moral standing for embryos and fetuses is to argue that we ought to confer some moral status
… There appear to be two main approaches to defending conferred moral standing; namely, …

… for thinking that later stage fetuses have more moral status than early stage fetuses. There is
… , for thinking that early stage fetuses have more moral status than later stage fetuses. Other …

… 26 Debate: The moral status ofthe near-term fetus monitoring of the health status of the
fetus and treatment or early delivery when needed. Since birth does not constitute a sharp …

… moral considerability as moral status. That a being has moral standing tells us that its interests
count; its moral status … plants on the other, I suggested earlier that we label the kind of well-…

… we commonly understand as moral status because it is not a moral status at all. Chervenak
… on views about the moral status of the fetus. As I pointed out earlier, concern about the well-…

… moral status of infants and fetuses to show that they either fail to establish that infants are
properly rights-bearers or fail to explain the grounds of this status… to harm a very early fetus or a …

… . 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.…

… moral status of early human lives is uncertain, then the killing of embryos, fetuses and/or
newborn babies would involve moral … in question just might have moral status.6 This would not …