Against the impairment argument: A reply to Hendricks

In an article of this journal, Perry Hendricks makes a novel argument for the immorality of abortion. According to his impairment argument, abortion is immoral because: (a) it is wrong to impair a fetus to the nth degree, such as causing the fetus to have fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS); (b) it is wron...

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Main Author: Räsänen, Joona (Author)
Contributors: Hendricks, Perry (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2020]
In: Bioethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 8, Pages: 862-864
IxTheo Classification:NCH Medical ethics
Further subjects:B Killing
B Ethics
B Harm
B Impairment
B Pro-life
B Fetus
B Abortion
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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