{"title":"Pregnancy, Ethics, and the Law in Medical Assistance in Dying.","authors":"Timothy F Murphy, Jennifer A Parks","doi":"10.1111/bioe.70169","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some US jurisdictions allow physicians to offer a lethal drug dose to adults with terminal diagnoses under certain conditions. We explore the morality of medical assistance in dying (MAID) for a pregnant woman with a terminal diagnosis in the context of state fetal protection laws. Several states have enacted laws or had court decisions that in the name of fetal protection prohibit abortions with limited exceptions, impose penalties on those involved in prohibited abortions, require treatment for certain pregnant brain-dead women, and recognize the personhood of embryos and fetuses through judicial declarations or statutes, among other things. Against this legal background, we explore the carryover meaning of these laws as they might bear on seeking MAID while pregnant and defend a prima facie moral right for dying women to choose MAID under the conditions it is practiced in the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":55379,"journal":{"name":"Bioethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bioethics","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.70169","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ETHICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Some US jurisdictions allow physicians to offer a lethal drug dose to adults with terminal diagnoses under certain conditions. We explore the morality of medical assistance in dying (MAID) for a pregnant woman with a terminal diagnosis in the context of state fetal protection laws. Several states have enacted laws or had court decisions that in the name of fetal protection prohibit abortions with limited exceptions, impose penalties on those involved in prohibited abortions, require treatment for certain pregnant brain-dead women, and recognize the personhood of embryos and fetuses through judicial declarations or statutes, among other things. Against this legal background, we explore the carryover meaning of these laws as they might bear on seeking MAID while pregnant and defend a prima facie moral right for dying women to choose MAID under the conditions it is practiced in the United States.
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As medical technology continues to develop, the subject of bioethics has an ever increasing practical relevance for all those working in philosophy, medicine, law, sociology, public policy, education and related fields.
Bioethics provides a forum for well-argued articles on the ethical questions raised by current issues such as: international collaborative clinical research in developing countries; public health; infectious disease; AIDS; managed care; genomics and stem cell research. These questions are considered in relation to concrete ethical, legal and policy problems, or in terms of the fundamental concepts, principles and theories used in discussions of such problems.
Bioethics also features regular Background Briefings on important current debates in the field. These feature articles provide excellent material for bioethics scholars, teachers and students alike.
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