PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Christopher A Bobier TI - Orphans and the relational significance of birth: a response to Singh AID - 10.1136/medethics-2020-106827 DP - 2021 Jun 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 439--440 VI - 47 IP - 6 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/47/6/439.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/47/6/439.full SO - J Med Ethics2021 Jun 01; 47 AB - Prabhpal Singh has defended a relational account of the difference in moral status between fetuses and newborns. Newborns stand in the parent-child relation while fetuses do not, and standing in the parent-child relationship brings with it higher moral status for newborns. Orphans pose a problem for this account because they do not stand in a parent-child relationship. I argue that Singh has not satisfactorily responded to the problem.