Relating to foetal persons: why women's Voices come first and last, but not alone in Abortion debates.

IF 2.3 2区 哲学 Q1 ETHICS
Medicine Health Care and Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-12 DOI:10.1007/s11019-023-10144-0
Stephen Milford
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Abstract

Abortion remains a controversial topic, with pro-life and pro-choice advocates clashing fiercely. However, public polling demonstrates that the vast majority of the Western public holds a middle position: being in favour of abortion but not in all circumstances nor at any time. The intuitions held by the majority seem to imply a contradiction: two early foetuses at the same point in development have different moral statuses. Providing coherent philosophical grounding for this intuition has proved challenging. Solutions given by philosophers such as Feinberg, Harman and Räsänen are complex and do not fully account for the lived experience of pregnancy loss. This article argues for a relational ontological construction of human personhood as the basis of foetal personhood. This approach takes seriously the literature of pregnancy loss and the lived experiences of pregnant persons. Focusing on the manner in which persons relate to early foetuses (especially pregnant persons), provides a coherent ground for distinct foetal value. Importantly, this approach is both simple and intuitive. Therefore, it can be more easily adopted by middle. To counter an implied equality of human relationality, the article argues for a clear hierarchy based on relational proximity that affirms pregnant persons? primary role in deciding the moral significance of foetal termination.

与胎儿有关:为什么在堕胎辩论中,妇女的声音既是第一位的,也是最后一位的,而不是唯一的。
堕胎仍然是一个有争议的话题,支持堕胎和支持选择堕胎的倡导者之间冲突激烈。然而,民意调查显示,绝大多数西方公众持中间立场:赞成堕胎,但不是在所有情况下,也不是在任何时候。大多数人的直觉似乎意味着一种矛盾:处于同一发育阶段的两个早期胎儿具有不同的道德地位。事实证明,为这一直觉提供连贯的哲学依据具有挑战性。费恩伯格(Feinberg)、哈曼(Harman)和赖萨宁(Räsänen)等哲学家给出的解决方案非常复杂,不能完全解释妊娠损失的生活体验。本文主张以人类人格的关系本体论建构作为胎儿人格的基础。这种方法认真对待有关妊娠损失的文献和孕妇的生活经历。关注人与早期胎儿(尤其是孕妇)的关系方式,为胎儿的独特价值提供了一致的基础。重要的是,这种方法既简单又直观。因此,它更容易被中间人采纳。为了反驳隐含的人类关系平等,文章主张在关系接近的基础上建立明确的等级制度,肯定孕妇在决定终止胎儿妊娠的道德意义方面的首要作用。
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自引率
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期刊介绍: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal is the official journal of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care. It provides a forum for international exchange of research data, theories, reports and opinions in bioethics and philosophy of medicine. The journal promotes interdisciplinary studies, and stimulates philosophical analysis centered on a common object of reflection: health care, the human effort to deal with disease, illness, death as well as health, well-being and life. Particular attention is paid to developing contributions from all European countries, and to making accessible scientific work and reports on the practice of health care ethics, from all nations, cultures and language areas in Europe.
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