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Abortion and Assent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

ROSAMOND RHODES
ROSAMOND RHODES
Affiliation:
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY, and the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine
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Abstract

Volumes have been written arguing the morality of abortion. A crucial premise in many of these arguments concerns the status of the fetus; specifically, that the fetus has or does not have a right to life. Opponents of abortion typically argue that fetuses are persons and hence have an inviolable right to life. Advocates of the right to abortion typically maintain that fetuses are not persons and hence have no right to life.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: THE MORALITY OF ABORTION
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 416 - 427
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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