After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 261-263

  Giubilini, Alberto ^a   Minerva, Francesca ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADOPTION; ALLOCATION OF HEALTHCARE RESOURCES; ARTICLE; BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; ENHANCEMENT; ETHICS; EUTHANASIA; FETAL WELL BEING; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILISATION AND EMBRYO TRANSFER; INDUCED ABORTION; INFANTICIDE; LEGAL ASPECT; MORALITY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PERSONHOOD; POTENTIALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGIOUS ETHICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ABORTION; ADOPTION; ALLOCATION OF HEALTHCARE RESOURCES; ENHANCEMENT; EUTHANASIA; IN VITRO FERTILISATION AND EMBRYO TRANSFER; INFANTICIDE; POTENTIALITY; RELIGIOUS ETHICS;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOPTION; BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; FETAL VIABILITY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANTICIDE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; MORALS; MOTHERS; PERSONHOOD; VALUE OF LIFE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84877322231     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2011-100411     Document Type: Article

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