… absence of reasoned arguments regarding the moral status of human embryos and fetuses.
… animal fetuses. The second linking factor which grounds the moral significance of early fetal …

… In this article, I will argue that this common-sense claim about the special moral status of …
are typically cited to distinguish newborns from early fetuses tend to be related to consciousness…

… , believe that the fetus, especially in its early stages of development, has a lesser … fetus's
moral status and abortion, there is an unfortunate tendency to think of our obligations to the fetus …

… and on the fetus (to be a potential person is a moral status, even … early embryo, and even
a fetus, possess rationality (R*) as a capability, that is not enough to give them the moral status …

… They do have moral status but not moral status that is functionally equivalent to that of the …
fetus can later become during early childhood. The ethical significance of the concept of the …

… 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 …

… images of fetal humans on some viewers’ judgments regarding their moral status and the …
First, viewing images of fetal humans, even as early as five to six weeks post-fertilization, …

… If the newborn baby from whom I derive had died in early infancy, it would still … fetus can
feel pain) we should give the fetus the benefit of the doubt. It is incredibly unlikely that the fetus …

This chapter critically discusses Laurence McCullough’s and Frank Chervenak’s concept of
the fetal patient and its suitability to replace the notion of the unborn child. For this purpose, …

… Others think that sentience may develop earlier in gestation, perhaps as early as the eighth
week of gestation, when brain waves occur. Despite disagreement about precisely when …