Today on bioethics.net, the latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics is posted. For those of you interested in reproductive ethics or ethical issues at the beginning of life, this is an issue for you.
Toby Ord writes about how natural embryo loss presents logical problems for those who believe that embryos have the same moral value as a person from the moment of conception. Oops, forgot about that loophole!
McCullough and Chervenak argue that “unborn child” as a phrase with descriptive and normative value should be replaced with a new concept, “fetus as patient”. This conjures up images of in utero humans with newly formed limbs with tiny hospital ID bands on them doesn’t it?
Lastly, Miller and Truog argue for a Socratic bioethics that challenges we bioethicists’ conventional wisdom. Could that mean that bioethicist really would become Socrates with a beeper?
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Summer Johnson, PhD