Clinicians’ criteria for fetal moral status: viability and relationality, not sentience
The antiabortion movement is increasingly using ostensibly scientific measurements such as ‘fetal heartbeat’ and ‘fetal pain’ to provide ‘objective’ evidence of the moral status of fetuses. However, there is little knowledge on how clinicians conceptualise and operationalise the moral status of fetu...
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2024
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2024, Volume: 50, Issue: 9, Pages: 634-639 |
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