Abortion remains one of the most complex and controversial issues in contemporary law and
bioethics. This volume draws together key essays from leading scholars on the ethical and …

Perry Hendricks' impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on two
premises: first, impairing a fetus with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, and second, if …

In January 2012, the Journal of Medical Ethics published online Giubilini and Minerva's
paper,'After-birth abortion. Why should the baby live?'. 1 The Journal publishes articles …

This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on
medical law and ethics, primarily designed to allow students to'get under the skin'of the topic …

In their paper'After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?'Alberto Giubilini and Francesca
Minerva argue that because there are no significant differences between a fetus and a …

Although there is no right to abort in English law but rather abortion is a crime, the lawful
grounds for which are instantiated in the Abortion Act 1967 (as amended by the Human …

Nothing in the field of health care generates more controversy worldwide than does the
issue of abortion. And, unfortunately, there is nothing to suggest that these controversies will …

Most opposition to abortion relies on the premiss that the foetus is a human being, a person,
from the moment of conception. The premiss is argued for, but, as I think, not well. Take, for …

Considers seven areas of medicine, ethics, and the law wherethere have been major,
topical and controversialdevelopments. Includes articles: Sterilising the …

In an attempt to provide some clarification in the abortion issue it has recently been
proposed that since'brain death'is used to define the end of life,'brain life'would be a logical …