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Fetuses are not adult humans: a response to Miller on abortion
  1. Ben Saunders
  1. Politics and IR, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ben Saunders; b.m.saunders{at}soton.ac.uk

Abstract

Miller has recently argued that fetuses have the same inherent value as non-disabled adults. However, we do not need to postulate some property possessed equally by all humans, including fetuses, in order to explain the equality of non-disabled adults. It would suffice if there were some property possessed by all non-disabled adults, but not by fetuses.

  • Abortion - Induced
  • Ethics
  • Fetus
  • Moral Status
  • Personhood

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  • Contributors BS is sole author. BS conceived the ideas and wrote and approved the manuscript.

  • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

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