Abortion and infanticide: why the parent-child relationship symmetry breaker fails
Some pro-life philosophers have argued that if one accepts abortion, one should accept infanticide. Prabhpal Singh has proposed a symmetry breaker. He argues that the parent-child relationship can only be obtained between born humans and such a relationship entails that infanticide is wrong. I consi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2025, Volume: 51, Issue: 11, Pages: 766-769 |
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| Summary: | Some pro-life philosophers have argued that if one accepts abortion, one should accept infanticide. Prabhpal Singh has proposed a symmetry breaker. He argues that the parent-child relationship can only be obtained between born humans and such a relationship entails that infanticide is wrong. I consider this account and argue that not only is its central claim, that only born humans can stand in a parent-child relationship, unmotivated, but even if accepted, it would still not explain why infanticide is wrong. |
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| ISSN: | 1473-4257 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medical ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1136/jme-2024-110387 |
