Veit, Walter (2021) Does Birth Matter? A Reply to Bobier and Omelianchuk. [Preprint]

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This paper is a response to a recent paper by Bobier and Omelianchuk in which they argue that the critics of Giubilini and Minerva’s defence of infanticide fail to adequately justify a moral difference at birth. They argue that such arguments would lead to an intuitively less plausible position: that late-term abortions are permissible, thus creating a dilemma for those who seek to argue that birth matters. I argue that the only way to resolve this dilemma, is to bite the naturalist bullet and accept that the intuitively plausible idea that birth constitutes a morally relevant event is simply mistaken and biologically misinformed.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Veit, Walter wrwveit@gmail.com 0000-0001-7701-8995
Keywords:	abortion, birth, bioethics, naturalism, health, sentience
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Science and Society
Depositing User:	Dr. Walter Veit
Date Deposited:	10 Jan 2021 03:11
Last Modified:	10 Jan 2021 03:11
Item ID:	18556
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Science and Society
Date:	2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18556

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