Persons, moral worth, and embryos a critical analysis of pro-choice arguments

Bioethicists have achieved sensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons. As a consequence, a consensus is reached regarding the permissibility of bot...

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Corporate Author:	SpringerLink
Resource Type:	Electronic Resource
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2011.
Series:	Philosophy and medicine 111.
Subjects:	Abortion > Moral and e. Abortion > Rel. El.
Online Access:	Available for the University of the Philippines Diliman via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access