Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos: A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments PDF
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PERSONS, MORAL WORTH, AND EMBRYOS Philosophy and Medicine VOLUME 111 Founding Co-Editor Stuart F. Spicker Senior Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Associate Editor Lisa M. Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina CATHOLIC STUDIES IN BIOETHICS Series Founding Co-Editors John Collins Harvey, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Francesc Abel, Institut Borja de Bioetica, Center Borja, Barcelona, Spain Series Editor Christopher Tollefsen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, U.S.A. Editorial Advisory Board Joseph Boyle, St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada Thomas Cavanaugh, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. Mark Cherry, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, U.S.A. Ana Smith Iltis, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, U.S.A. PERSONS, MORAL WORTH, AND EMBRYOS A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments Edited by STEPHEN NAPIER National Catholic Bioethics Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA 123 Editor Stephen Napier National Catholic Bioethics Center 6399 Drexel Rd 19151 Philadelphia PA, USA Acknowledgments I would like to thank the following persons for helping with this project either as a reviewer or through constructive and helpful guidance: Mike Austin, Joseph Shaw, Barry Smith, David Manley, Chris Kaposy, Father Martin Rhonheimer, Phillip Montague, Tal Brewer, Hud Hudson, James Cutsinger, Lori Gruen, Father Alfred Cioffi, Rosalind Hursthouse, and Patrick Yeung. Many of these people do not share the views expressed herein, and their help exudes the kind of charitable and intel- lectually just discourse this volume aims to realize. I would like especially to thank Christopher Tollefsen whose guidance on this project was indispensable. v This is Blank Page Integra vi Contents 1 Introduction: What Are Persons? What Is Valuable? . . . . . . . . 1 Stephen Napier Part I Philosophical Considerations 2 I Was Once a Fetus: That Is Why Abortion Is Wrong . . . . . . . . 19 Alexander R. Pruss 3 Brain Life and the Argument from Potential: Affirming the Ontological Status of Human Embryos and Fetuses . . . . . . . 43 Jason T. Eberl and Brandon P. Brown 4 The Human Being, a Person of Substance: A Response to Dean Stretton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Francis J. Beckwith 5 The Concept of Person in Bioethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Anselm Winfried Müller 6 Abortion and Virtue Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Mathew Lu 7 Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism, and Moral Status . . . . . . . . . 125 David B. Hershenov 8 The Christian Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 David W. Fagerberg 9 Fetal Interests, Fetal Persons, and Human Goods . . . . . . . . . . 163 Christopher Tollefsen Part II Scientific Considerations 10 Fetal Pains and Fetal Brains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 A.A. Howsepian 11 A Biological Definition of the Human Embryo . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Maureen L. Condic vii viii Contents Part III Perspectives from Law and Political Philosophy 12 Public Reason and Abortion Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 David Thunder 13 Abortion, Sexual Markets and the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Helen M. Alvaré Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Contributors Helen M. Alvaré George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA, USA,
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