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, …

… a newly implanted embryo or early fetus is analogous to, say, … of moral or ethical doctrines
about the intrinsic state of the fetus … attitudes towards a fetus, and its possible moral status, are …

… fetal surgery, fetal rights, and maternal-fetal conflicts raises important ethical questions
concerning the moral status of the fetus. … either upgrade the status of the earliest embryo to that of …

… moral status of the life within her? How should we understand its status as conceptus, as
embryo, when an early … It is sometimes argued that, if a matured fetus has a moral status …

… is compatible with federal financing of research on this early … -cut answer to the moral status
of the embryo could be found, … status of fetuses; regardless of their unknown moral status, he …

… different moral status to an early fetus than … moral status than non-people, and (as I will
argue) dualism and psychological materialism fit most comfortably with the view that early fetuses …

… fetuses as a basis for permitting states to restrict abortion rights in order to protect fetal life in
the third trimester, but not earlier. Yet … between the moral status of sentient fetuses and that of …

… this theory, we can formulate the moral status of the fetus as a considered moral judgment. …
reference of this term to living persons as defined earlier in this article. When terms are used …

… as the thr fetus as equal to … Those who have made so much of the moral status of the fetus
have, I fear, … Early versions of part of this paper were read before the Midwest Philosophy …