Johnny Sakr
Biographic Data
| ID | 9030384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johnny Sakr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johnny |
| FAMILY NAME | Sakr |
| SIGNATURE | SAKR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prince Sultan University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-0732-6373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Critical Examination of Gestational Autonomy and Democratic Equality
This article critically examines Japa Pallikkathayil's claim that pre-viability abortion prohibitions violate democratic and legal equality. Pallikkathayil grounds this view in analogies to compelled bodily donation, arguing that inalienable bodily rights, understood chiefly as bodily integrity, protect gestational autonomy. The article challenges that analogy through four arguments. First, human procreation has a morally distinctive character, g…
Victimhood Without Personhood
New York's Reproductive Health Act 2019 (RHA) reshaped the legal treatment of pregnancy-loss violence by confining homicide to the death of a "person" and removing earlier provisions that integrated certain late-term abortion and abortive offences into the homicide framework. This article traces New York's statutory development from the 1965 Penal Law to the RHA and uses the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act 2004 (UVVA) as a comparator. It a…
Modus tollens and the epistemic limits of moral intuition in bioethical reasoning
Selective Reduction, the Substance View, and the Doctrines of Necessity and Self-Defence
Clarifying the definition of ‘abortion’ in law and clinical practice
Not all personal utilities are equal
Health technology assessment (HTA) bodies are increasingly asked to consider the personal utility of genomic testing: the informational, practical and psychosocial value of results beyond direct changes in clinical management. Yet treating all non-clinical benefits as normatively equivalent risks obscures the distributive task of publicly funded HTA, while refusing to consider them at all ignores forms of value that may bear on rights, equity and…
Moral equivalence and the grounds of moral status in stem cell-derived embryo models
Gyngell et al argue that no intrinsic differences exist between embryos derived from fertilisation and stem cell-derived embryo models (SCEMs) that would justify attributing a higher moral status to the former. Nienke de Graeff and Lien De Proost challenge this claim by emphasising the diversity of SCEMs and by broadening moral evaluation beyond direct moral status to include relational, symbolic and instrumental value. This response argues that …
Time-sensitive hybrid model for parent allocation in IVF embryo mix-ups
In in vitro fertilisation (IVF) mix-ups and contested parenthood, Prince and colleagues argue that the familiar ‘genetic presumption’ in parenthood disputes should be treated as rebuttable in favour of the gestational relationship, and that custody and guardianship outcomes will typically be resolved under best-interests standards, with biological relatedness operating as one relevant factor among others. Their paper effectively re-centres moral …
Principle consistency is not practice justification
Beyond Sentience
Abstracta in Time
This paper investigates how abstracta, such as numbers or functions, can be said to emerge at particular times, as in the claim that “complex numbers did not exist before the sixteenth century.” Standard accounts encounter well-known difficulties. Platonism posits timeless entities and struggles to explain historical emergence, while nominalism denies mathematical existence and fails to explain applicability. The paper develops a neutralist metao…
Beyond relationalism
In their recent Authors Meet Critics contribution to the Journal of Medical Ethics , Nancy S Jecker and Caesar Alimsinya Atuire invite a re-examination of personhood that extends beyond Western individualism and incorporates relational, cross-cultural insights. Their account effectively recentres moral discourse on community, continuity and mutual recognition. This response agrees with Jecker and Atuire that personhood cannot be reduced to autono…
Transformative experience and the limits of legal consent
Joona Räsänen argues that abortion is a paradigmatic ‘transformative experience’ and that such experiences weaken autonomy-based justifications for abortion because individuals cannot fully anticipate how either abortion or continued pregnancy will alter their future values and identities. This response challenges the legal implications of that claim. Transformative experiences are pervasive across medicine and ordinary life, yet legal standards …
A Personalist Approach to the Just Allocation of Resources in the Midst of a Pandemic
This paper examines the ethical implications of healthcare resource allocation during the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy, from 21 February to 31 May 2020, with a focus on the utilitarian principles that prioritized age-based resource allocation. By comparing this approach to an ontological personalist bioethics framework, the study aims to offer a more equitable strategy for healthcare allocation applicable to any pandemic. Data from governmenta…
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A Personalist Approach to the Just Allocation of Resources in the Midst of a Pandemic
This paper examines the ethical implications of healthcare resource allocation during the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy, from 21 February to 31 May 2020, with a focus on the utilitarian principles that prioritized age-based resource allocation. By comparing this approach to an ontological personalist bioethics framework, the study aims to offer a more equitable strategy for healthcare allocation applicable to any pandemic. Data from governmenta…
Abstracta in Time
This paper investigates how abstracta, such as numbers or functions, can be said to emerge at particular times, as in the claim that “complex numbers did not exist before the sixteenth century.” Standard accounts encounter well-known difficulties. Platonism posits timeless entities and struggles to explain historical emergence, while nominalism denies mathematical existence and fails to explain applicability. The paper develops a neutralist metao…
Beyond relationalism
In their recent Authors Meet Critics contribution to the Journal of Medical Ethics , Nancy S Jecker and Caesar Alimsinya Atuire invite a re-examination of personhood that extends beyond Western individualism and incorporates relational, cross-cultural insights. Their account effectively recentres moral discourse on community, continuity and mutual recognition. This response agrees with Jecker and Atuire that personhood cannot be reduced to autono…
Transformative experience and the limits of legal consent
Joona Räsänen argues that abortion is a paradigmatic ‘transformative experience’ and that such experiences weaken autonomy-based justifications for abortion because individuals cannot fully anticipate how either abortion or continued pregnancy will alter their future values and identities. This response challenges the legal implications of that claim. Transformative experiences are pervasive across medicine and ordinary life, yet legal standards …
A Critical Examination of Gestational Autonomy and Democratic Equality
This article critically examines Japa Pallikkathayil's claim that pre-viability abortion prohibitions violate democratic and legal equality. Pallikkathayil grounds this view in analogies to compelled bodily donation, arguing that inalienable bodily rights, understood chiefly as bodily integrity, protect gestational autonomy. The article challenges that analogy through four arguments. First, human procreation has a morally distinctive character, g…
Victimhood Without Personhood
New York's Reproductive Health Act 2019 (RHA) reshaped the legal treatment of pregnancy-loss violence by confining homicide to the death of a "person" and removing earlier provisions that integrated certain late-term abortion and abortive offences into the homicide framework. This article traces New York's statutory development from the 1965 Penal Law to the RHA and uses the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act 2004 (UVVA) as a comparator. It a…
Modus tollens and the epistemic limits of moral intuition in bioethical reasoning
Selective Reduction, the Substance View, and the Doctrines of Necessity and Self-Defence
Clarifying the definition of ‘abortion’ in law and clinical practice
Not all personal utilities are equal
Health technology assessment (HTA) bodies are increasingly asked to consider the personal utility of genomic testing: the informational, practical and psychosocial value of results beyond direct changes in clinical management. Yet treating all non-clinical benefits as normatively equivalent risks obscures the distributive task of publicly funded HTA, while refusing to consider them at all ignores forms of value that may bear on rights, equity and…
Moral equivalence and the grounds of moral status in stem cell-derived embryo models
Gyngell et al argue that no intrinsic differences exist between embryos derived from fertilisation and stem cell-derived embryo models (SCEMs) that would justify attributing a higher moral status to the former. Nienke de Graeff and Lien De Proost challenge this claim by emphasising the diversity of SCEMs and by broadening moral evaluation beyond direct moral status to include relational, symbolic and instrumental value. This response argues that …
Time-sensitive hybrid model for parent allocation in IVF embryo mix-ups
In in vitro fertilisation (IVF) mix-ups and contested parenthood, Prince and colleagues argue that the familiar ‘genetic presumption’ in parenthood disputes should be treated as rebuttable in favour of the gestational relationship, and that custody and guardianship outcomes will typically be resolved under best-interests standards, with biological relatedness operating as one relevant factor among others. Their paper effectively re-centres moral …
Principle consistency is not practice justification
Beyond Sentience
Reproductive Health and Technologies (6 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (5 works) · Abortion (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Bioethics (2 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works) · Harm (2 works) · MEDLINE (2 works) · Moral disengagement (2 works) · Moral reasoning (2 works)