Abortion and Tinkering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Schedler (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Matthew J Kelly (0000-0002-3243-4861), Matthew Kelly (0000-0001-7963-2139, Southern Illinois University Carbondale) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 122-125 |
| Publication date | 1978-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300024124 |
| PMID | 11664128 |
| OpenAlex | W2076502987 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Recent defences of abortion on demand have located the morally relevant difference between normal adult human beings and non-viable fetuses in the possession of personhood by the former but not by the latter. It is, so the story goes, morally wrong to kill innocent human beings because they are persons, but non-viable fetuses, though they be biologically human, are nevertheless not persons and may therefore be killed without doing anything morally wrong
Abortion · Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Personhood · Political science · Possession (linguistics) · Pregnancy · Sentience · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |