RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Unfinished feticide: the ethical problems.
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 66
OP 67
DO 10.1136/jme.16.2.66
VO 16
IS 2
A1 Lesser, Harry
YR 1990
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/16/2/66.abstract
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.