Ethical Issues Concerning Organ Donation.

Abstract

The Duty to Protect, Abortion, and Organ Donation 1 is an essay on transplantation that has as its premise: “ For those who believe the fetus has full moral status, it is a given the fetus has all the rights of personhood. That includes the right not to be killed. ” The authors also presuppose that the obligations of a parent, who so believes, places “ Responsibility on the parents to keep the fetus alive even at a cost to themselves. ” That cost, the authors propose extends to sacrificing one ’ s own life to protect the life of the fetus. (No analysis is provided to support their proposition.)