PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lesser, Harry
TI  - Unfinished feticide: the ethical problems.
AID  - 10.1136/jme.16.2.66
DP  - 1990 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 66--67
VI  - 16
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/16/2/66.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/16/2/66.full
SO  - J Med Ethics1990 Jun 01; 16
AB  - Dr. Jansen's paper raises three main issues. The one with which he himself is most concerned is the question of which methods of abortion are ethically right, and whether methods which risk the birth of a damaged baby are wrong. But there are two others: first, how the (originally unintended) birth of a live but damaged child alters the moral situation, and secondly, whether the overcoming of sterility by inducing a multiple pregnancy in which some of the fetuses have to be killed in order for any of them to survive is at all morally acceptable.