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Birth’s transformative shift: a response to Waleszczyński
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Waleszczyński critiques my argument for why the relationship between a pregnant person and any fetus they carry is not a relationship between a parent and a child. I argue Waleszczyński does not show that my ‘argument from potentiality’ is inadequate, and I provide further justification for why birth marks a transformative shift into a moral relationship.
- Abortion - Induced
- Infant- Newborn
- Fetus
- Child
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Contributors PS is the sole author.
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.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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