Titlebook: What Is a Person?; Michael F. Goodman Book 1988 The Humana Press Inc. 1988 birth.ethics.fetus.medicine.morality.research.suicide.treatment

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Abortion,quently, elective surgery. In fact, proponents of the extremes tend to respect one another as at least being self-consistent, while joining in swift rebuttal of those who want it both ways and ignominiously try to be moderates on either murder or mandatory motherhood.

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Human Being,death—specifically whether to retain the traditional cardiopulmonary criteria for death or to adopt some version of so-called brain-death criteria. The law in some jurisdictions has already begun to permit physicians to pronounce death on a finding of “irreversible coma.” And though it is clear that

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In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide, practices rests on the contention that human fetuses and infants have a right to life. It is this claim which will be the focus of attention here. The basic issue to be discussed, then, is what properties a thing must possess in order to have a right to life. My approach will be to set out and defe