Life before birth : the moral and legal status of embryos and fetuses

Steinbock, Bonnie (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780195341621 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0195341627 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 311 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: Second Edition.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Copyright: ©2011

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Interest View -- I. Consciousness and Interests -- Is Consciousness Necessary for Having Interests? -- Is Consciousness Sufficient for Having Interests? -- II. Interests of Nonconscious Individuals -- Dead People -- Permanently Unconscious People -- Infants with Anencephaly -- III. Future People -- IV. Parfit Problem and the Farther Future -- V. Potential People: Embryos and Fetuses -- 2. Abortion -- I. Moral Standing of the Fetus -- Conservative Position -- Fetal Sentience -- Implantation -- Person View -- Right to Life -- II. Argument From Potential -- Logical Problem -- Contraception and the Moral Standing of Gametes -- III. Future-Like-Ours Account -- IV. Identity -- Embodied Mind Account -- Biological View -- Interest View and the Time-Relative Interests Account -- Sentient Fetuses -- V. Possible People -- Nonidentity Problem -- VI. Argument From Bodily Self-Determination -- Thomson's Defense of Abortion -- Roe v. Wade -- VII. Moral and Legal Significance of Viability -- Late Abortions -- Partial-Birth Abortion -- 3. Beyond Abortion: The Fetus in Tort and Criminal Law -- I. Recovery for Prenatal Injury in Torts -- Against Third Parties -- Irrelevance of Viability -- Preconception Torts -- Against the Mother -- Woman's Right of Privacy -- Automobile Liability -- II. Prenatal Wrongful Death -- Wrongful-Death Actions -- Implications for Abortion -- III. Criminal Law -- Prenatal Neglect -- Homicide -- IV. Wrongful Life -- 4. Maternal-Fetal Conflict -- I. Moral Obligations to the Not-Yet-Born -- Risks to the Fetus -- II. Pregnant Women and the Law -- Delivering Drugs Through the Umbilical Cord -- Criminal Prosecution for Child Abuse or Endangerment -- Criminal Prosecution for Homicide -- Jailing the Pregnant Addict -- Termination of Parental Rights -- Compulsory Cesarean Sections -- Implications of Roe v. Wade -- McFall v. Shimp and the Duty to Rescue -- Less Invasive Cases -- 5. Assisted Reproductive Technology -- I. Science of Assisted Reproductive Technology -- In Vitro Fertilization -- Health Risks to Women -- Health Risks to Offspring -- II. Procreative Liberty and Its Critics -- John Robertson -- Adoption and the Right to Have Biologically Related Children -- Core Values and Penumbral Interests -- Interests of Children and the Nonidentity Problem -- III. Limits to Procreative Liberty -- Postmenopausal Mothers -- Risk of Transmitting Disease or Disability -- Multiple Births -- IV. Dispositional Problems -- Davis v. Davis -- Kass v. Kass -- V. Gamete Donation -- Sperm Donation -- Egg Donation -- 6. Stem Cell Research -- I. Science -- Adult Stem Cells -- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells -- Cloning: Reproductive Versus Therapeutic -- II. Moral Standing of the Human Embryo -- Twinning Problem -- Respect for Embryos -- Kantian Respect -- Moral Standing Versus Moral Value -- Basis for Ascribing Moral Value to Human Embryos -- III. Discarded-Created Distinction -- IV. Payment for Oocytes -- V. Chimeras, Hybrids, and Cybrids -- VI. Law and Policy in the United States -- Cloning Policy -- VII. Law and Policy in Other Countries -- United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning.