... that this may be for good reason. abortion fetal personhood killing and letting-die distinction miscarriage Some opponents of abortion claim that fetuses are persons from the moment of conception. Following Berg (2017) , I will call these individuals “Personhood-At-Conception” (or PAC), opponents...

.... It concludes with a discussion of the value of maintaining a distinction between “wholesale” and “retail” when the broader message of the halakhah is in tension with its application to real-life cases. abortion status of fetus halakhah Jewish law fetal personhood bodily autonomy...

... to kill the other party, and where they themselves are beyond saving. If a discussant thinks that other features of pregnancy not captured in either case are also ethically salient to abortion, even on the assumption of fetal personhood (including the fact that the fetus is entirely enclosed within...

... human rights discourse Nonhuman Rights Project corporeality fetal personhood movement Personhood USA Carder Angela Muñoz Marlise Roe v Wade 1973 Supreme Court U S biopolitics Stallman v Youngquist 1988 Whitner v South Carolina 1997 Longworth Bryan animal rights movement Hyde Alan National...

... and the Duty to Gestate’ (1999) 2 Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 295, 295. ² ibid . ³ ibid . ⁴ ibid . abortion moral conduct legal conduct morality human fetus infanticide fetal personhood ...

... not. This, in Dworkin’s eyes, makes debate about fetal personhood interminable, for there will be no trump cards, so to speak. Those who view the fetus from conception onward as equivalent to an unborn child and those who view it as no more than a cluster of cells cannot hope to persuade each other otherwise by recourse...

... the personhood question of most of its relevance, I concluded that those attempts ultimately fail. In sum, those seriously engaged in ethical and legal reasoning about abortion must confront the fetal personhood issue and make up their minds about it. Still, it is little wonder that some discussants have made...