Persons, moral worth, and embryos a critical analysis of pro-choice arguments

Bioethicists have achieved sensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons. As a consequence, a consensus is reached regarding the permissibility of bot...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink
Format: Electronic Resource
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2011.
Series:Philosophy and medicine 111.
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