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Category: Moral status

A new argument on personhood, based on pregnancy

Posted on June 5, 2023

By Heloise Robinson. This blog post is about a JME article I have just written, in which I make a new argument on personhood, in relation to pregnancy. I argue that, if we follow a threshold concept of personhood, there are reasons to recognise a second threshold that would be reached because of pregnancy, and […]

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