Human equality and the impermissibility of abortion
A response to Bozzo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21514818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Calum Miller (0000-0003-3408-1737, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 209-211 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Medical Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6800 • E-ISSN: 1473-4257 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/jme-2023-109501 |
| PMID | 37979974 |
| OpenAlex | W4388789438 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
I have recently offered a defence of human equality, and consequently an argument against abortion. This has been objected to by Bozzo, on the grounds that my account of human equality is unclear and could be grounded in utilitarian or Kantian ethics, that my account struggles to ground the permissibility of therapeutic abortions, and that my proposed foundation for human equality itself is parasitic on a scalar property which generates the same difficulties I am attempting to solve. I provide an account of human equality which cannot easily be grounded in utilitarianism or Kantianism, offer a variety of defences of therapeutic abortion consistent with treating the mother and child equally, and show that even if the value of humanness is ultimately grounded in a scalar quality, my argument succeeds
Abortion · Biology · Epistemology · Pregnancy · Sociology · Utilitarianism · Computer Science · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Ethics in medical practice · Medicine · Philosophy · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |