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27 maj 2022 · In order to engage with these critical questions, bioethicists must avoid abortion exceptionalism and respect patients as moral agents. Centering the conscience of pregnant people shifts our analysis away from the ethics of the act of abortion, and toward the ethics of access to abortion care.
5 maj 2022 · Director of Medical School's Center for Bioethics discusses ethical dimensions of abortion and how a ruling against Roe might affect providers.
23 mar 2019 · Clinicians who provide abortions honour the medical ethics principle of beneficence by preventing the harms of forced childbearing and unsafe abortion. The principle of beneficence also illuminates some patients' abortion decisions as an expression of mother love.
These pivotal evidence-based recommendations and best practices recognise the needs of pregnant individuals across the abortion care pathway, calling for the removal of unnecessary policy barriers and providing clear guidance to health-care providers for the delivery of safe abortion care.
David S Oderberg. Journal of Medical Ethics Apr 2017, 43 (4) 192-200; DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103476. Freedom of conscience in Europe? An analysis of three cases of midwives with conscientious objection to abortion. Valerie Fleming, Beate Ramsayer, Teja Škodič Zakšek.
23 sty 2023 · First, I set out the importance of access to abortion. I suggest that bioethics has a role to play in advocating for abortion access. Abortion is clearly necessary and important, and bioethics should be working through how people can have the best abortion possible—with minimal legal risk.
16 mar 2019 · The argument about abortion typically focuses on the question of whether or not the fetus has a serious moral right to life. It is commonly thought that if fetuses have this right, then abortion is, in the vast majority of cases, immoral. Thomson (1971) famously denies this inference.
