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Disputes in Bioethics : Abortion, Euthanasia, and Other Controversies

"Disputes in Bioethics tackles some of the most debated questions in contemporary scholarship about the beginning and end of life. This collection of essays takes up questions about the dawn of human life, including: Should we make children with three (or more) parents? Is it better never to ha...

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Autor principal: Kaczor, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, IN, UNITED STATES University of Notre Dame Press 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue
  • 1. Is speciesism and form of prejudice?
  • 2. What is dignity?
  • 3. Should we make children with three (or more) parents?
  • 4. Is Roe v. Wade unquestionably correct?
  • 5. What are reproductive rights?
  • 6. Is it better never to have been born?
  • 7. Is there a right to the death of the fetus?
  • 8. Why should the baby live?
  • 9. Do children have a right to be loved?
  • 10. Do children contribute to the flourishing of their parents?
  • 11. Is "death with dignity" a dangerous euphenism?
  • 12. Should euthanasia be permitted for children?
  • 13. Does assisted suicide harm those who do not choose to die?
  • 14. Is conscientious objection to abortion like conscientious objection to antibiotics?
  • 15. Do medical conscientious objectors differ from military conscientious objectors?
  • 16. Should conscientiously objecting institutions cover elective abortion in their insurance plans?
  • 17. Is it ethically permissible to separate conjoined twins?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.