… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… be regarded as having the same moral status as persons, is … fetuses near term. We suspect
that most obstetricians, for example, would consider fetuses near term to have a moral status …

… 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 …

… we commonly understand as moral status because it is not a moral status at all. Chervenak
… less agree with, what they say about the moral features of the fetus–physician relationship. …

… If a fetus is at some early stage of development as dissimilar to a human as a deformed
fetus… the unformed fetus from the deformed fetus“) If no morally pertinent characteristic can be …

… moral status, “the interest view.” In subsequent chapters, I apply this theory to problems involving
embryos and fetuses… We can refer to this aspect of moral considerability as moral status. …

… By contrast, there is no such consensus about the moral status of human fetuses,
humans incapable of consciousness, and even sophisticated animals like great apes. …

… all early fetuses lack moral status; some of the other attractive views appear to be committed
to the view that all early fetuses have moral status… Version): Early fetuses that will die without …