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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Format: | Electronic Resource |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2011.
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Series: | Philosophy and medicine
111. |
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Online Access: | Available for the University of the Philippines Diliman via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access |