MIP does not save the impairment argument against abortion: a reply to Blackshaw and Hendricks
Perry Hendricks’ original ‘impairment argument’ against abortion relied on ‘the impairment principle’ (TIP): ‘if it is immoral to impair an organism O to the nth degree, then, ceteris paribus, it is immoral to impair O to the n+1 degree.’ Since death is a bigger impairment than fetal alcohol syndrom...
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BMJ Publ.
2021
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 47, Issue: 7, Pages: 519-520 |
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