“After birth” abortion: a biomedical and conceptual nonsense

Teka Komisji Prawniczej PAN Oddział w Lublinie

Abortion in any form can not be universally accepted. Reason for her to make a human fetus and on the newborn can not be permitted. Abortion and abortion after birth is incompatible with inherent right to life of every human being. The natural law, which is expressed in the warrant bonum et malum vitandum faciendum associated all people and is also the source of the right to life. The right to life is also protected by the recognition of the positive law, enshrined in international declarations, conventions and treaties cards and constitutional law of modern states. Abortion after birth also can not justify the absence of the child’s life or his lack of moral right to life. If we understand the subject in this way the right to life and also the existence of human rights in general will be contest.

The public discourse on this subject is polarised into the so-called 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice' camps, particularly in the West. Morality or otherwise of abortion is a challenging question that is often a victim of ignorance, hidden agendas, fundamentally different worldviews and a host of social issues. Continuing development of science and medicine also has its profound impact on this question, not to mention the shifts in social contexts, especially in the West. The debate is often predicated on the concept of personhood, which is one of the most difficult questions in philosophy, and whether an embryo is a 'person with potential' or a 'potential person'. The real or apparent dichotomy of quality vs. sanctity of life also bears upon the debate, related to other debates within the larger theistic-atheistic debates such as euthanasia and so-called 'right to die': 'Today, then, the medical tradition emphasizing the principle of sanctity of human life is competing with another school of thought according to which some lives are not worth living, because they are perceived to be of too poor a quality.' This essay tries to provide some historical background, briefly outline the arguments on behalf of both sides, subject them to critique, and finally offer a tentative and hesitant conclusion. As Thomas Nagel has suggested 'There is no view from nowhere' and therefore anyone, on either side of the argument, comes with the inevitable baggage of beliefs, experiences and commitments that influence to a larger or lesser degree one's answer to this challenging question.

Monash Bioethics Review Vol 31 N 2, 2013

This paper articulates a careful and detailed objection to the moral permissibility of post-natal abortion (Giubilini and Minerva 2012), which does not reject the argument"s premises, namely that the newborn is not a person in the morally relevant sense (Tooley"s 1972).

Scholars have offered various critiques of Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva's controversial article, 'After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?' My book The Ethics of Abortion: Women's

Studia Gilsoniana, 2018

The author discusses the problem of abortion. He defines abortion as a deliberate and immediate killing of a human being before birth; he distinguishes it from spontaneous miscarriage or a situation where the child is allowed to die without this being intended, where the death is the result of causes not dependent upon acting persons—abortus indirectus. In order to morally evaluate the act of abortion, the author considers both the ontic status of the conceived human being and the criteria usually used for the evaluation.

resuMen Palabras Clave: Aborto, descriminalización, ética, política, derecho, Sentencia C-355/06.

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2001

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967 when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral status of the human fetus. The debate here is not, it is argued, primarily a moral debate, but rather a metaphysical debate and/or a theological debate-though one with massive moral implications. It concerns the nature and attributes that an entity requires to have "full moral standing" or "moral inviolability" including a "right to life". It concerns the question when, in its development from newly fertilised ovum to unequivocally mature, autonomous morally inviolable person does a human being acquire that nature and those attributes, and thus a "right to life". The paper briefly reviews standard answers to these questions, outlining some problems associated with each. Finally there is a brief discussion of one way in which the abortion debate has changed since 1967-notably in the increasingly vociferous claim, especially from disability rights sectors, that abortion on grounds of fetal abnormality implies contempt for and rejection of disabled people-a claim that is rebutted.

Különleges Bánásmód - Interdiszciplináris folyóirat

This study is the second part of the examination, considering the multifaceted feature of debates surrounding the termination of pregnancy. Although we may suppose that the so-called pro-life and pro-choice supporters have already paved their rigid ways of thinking with no possibility or hope for any modification, it might come as a surprise to learn that even Christian and Buddhist points of view can be tuned. Health-related disciplines, such as psychology keep reflecting on the issues of abortion with more and more emphasis on the post period of it.

Academic Essay, 2020