DEEPER PROBLEMS FOR NOONAN'S PROBABILITY ARGUMENT AGAINST ABORTION: ON A CHARITABLE READING OF NOONAN'S CONCEPTION CRITERION OF HUMANITY

In ‘An Almost Absolute Value in History’ John T. Noonan criticizes several attempts to provide a criterion for when an entity deserves rights. These criteria, he argues are either arbitrary or lead to absurd consequence. Noonan proposes human conception as the criterion of rights, and justifies it b...

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Main Author: Clune, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
In: Bioethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 280-289
Further subjects:B Human
B Rights
B Noonan
B Probability
B Conception
B Potential
B Abortion
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