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78Why arguments against infanticide remain convincing: A reply to RäsänenBioethics 32 (3): 215-219. 2018.In ‘Pro-life arguments against infanticide and why they are not convincing’ Joona Räsänen argues that Christopher Kaczor's objections to Giubilini and Minerva's position on infanticide are not persuasive. We argue that Räsänen's criticism is largely misplaced, and that he has not engaged with Kaczor's strongest arguments against infanticide. We reply to each of Räsänen's criticisms, drawing on the full range of Kaczor's arguments, as well as adding some of our own.
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77Ectogenesis and the case against the right to the death of the foetusBioethics 33 (1): 76-81. 2018.Ectogenesis, or the use of an artificial womb to allow a foetus to develop, will likely become a reality within a few decades, and could significantly affect the abortion debate. We first examine the implications for Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist analogy, which argues for a woman’s right to withdraw life support from the foetus and so terminate her pregnancy, even if the foetus is granted full moral status. We show that on Thomson’s reasoning, there is no right to the death of the foetus, an…Read more
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55Defining life from death: problems with the somatic integration definition of lifeBioethics (5): 1-5. 2020.To determine when the life of a human organism begins, Mark T. Brown has developed the somatic integration definition of life. Derived from diagnostic criteria for human death, Brown’s account requires the presence of a life‐regulation internal control system for an entity to be considered a living organism. According to Brown, the earliest point at which a developing human could satisfy this requirement is at the beginning of the fetal stage, and so the embryo is not regarded as a living human …Read more
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37Moral distress in healthcare assistants: A discussion with recommendationsNursing Ethics 26 (7-8): 2306-2313. 2019.Background:Moral distress can be broadly described as the psychological distress that can develop in response to a morally challenging event. In the context of healthcare, its effects are well documented in the nursing profession, but there is a paucity of research exploring its relevance to healthcare assistants.Objective:This article aims to examine the existing research on moral distress in healthcare assistants, identity the important factors that are likely to contribute to moral distress, …Read more
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35Down’s Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic (review)The New Bioethics 24 (1): 95-97. 2018.
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27Inconsistency arguments still do not matterJournal of Medical Ethics 1 1-4. 2021.William Simkulet has recently criticised Colgrove et al’s defence against what they have called inconsistency arguments—arguments that claim opponents of abortion (OAs) act in ways inconsistent with their underlying beliefs about human fetuses (eg, that human fetuses are persons at conception). Colgrove et al presented three objections to inconsistency arguments, which Simkulet argues are unconvincing. Further, he maintains that OAs who hold that the fetus is a person at conception fail to act o…Read more
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22Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and Equitable Patient SelectionCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1-10. forthcoming.Xenotransplant patient selection recommendations restrict clinical trial participation to seriously ill patients for whom alternative therapies are unavailable or who will likely die while waiting for an allotransplant. Despite a scholarly consensus that this is advisable, we propose to examine this restriction. We offer three lines of criticism: (1) The risk–benefit calculation may well be unfavorable for seriously ill patients and society; (2) the guidelines conflict with criteria for equitabl…Read more
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22Hypocrisy, Consistency, and Opponents of AbortionIn Nicholas Colgrove, Bruce P. Blackshaw & Daniel Rodger (eds.), Agency, Pregnancy and Persons : Essays in Defense of Human Life, Routledge. pp. 127-144. 2022.Arguments that claim opponents of abortion are inconsistent in some manner are becoming increasingly prevalent both in academic and public discourse. For example, it is common to claim that they spend considerable time and resources to oppose induced abortion, but show little concern regarding the far greater numbers of naturally occurring intrauterine deaths (miscarriages). Critics argue that if abortion opponents took their beliefs about the value of embryos and fetuses seriously, they would i…Read more
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21Zooming in on Justice: The Case for Virtual Bioethics ConferencingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (4): 60-62. 2024.In their target article, “Proposed Principles for International Bioethics Conferencing: Anti-Discriminatory, Global, and Inclusive,” Jecker et al. (2024) highlight the growing international scope o...
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17Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided TimesThe New Bioethics 26 (3): 289-292. 2020.Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2020, Page 289-292.
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15Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trialBioethics 38 (4): 308-315. 2024.Preclinical xenotransplantation research using genetically engineered pigs has begun to show some promising results and could one day offer a scalable means of addressing organ shortage. While it is a fundamental tenet of ethical human subject research that participants have a right to withdraw from research once enrolled, several scholars have argued that the right to withdraw from xenotransplant research should be suspended because of the public health risks posed by xenozoonotic transmission.…Read more
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14Why Ectogestation Is Unlikely to Transform the Abortion Debate: a Discussion of ‘Ectogestation and the Problem of Abortion’Philosophy and Technology 34 (4): 1929-1935. 2020.In this commentary, I will consider the implications of the argument made by Christopher Stratman in ‘Ectogestation and the Problem of Abortion’. Clearly, the possibility of ectogestation will have some effect on the ethical debate on abortion. However, I have become increasingly sceptical that the possibility of ectogestation will transform the problem of abortion. Here, I outline some of my reasons to justify this scepticism. First, I argue that virtually everything we already know about unint…Read more
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11Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs’ capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineeringJournal of Medical Ethics. forthcoming.One objection to xenotransplantation is that it will require the large-scale breeding, raising and killing of genetically modified pigs. The pigs will need to be raised in designated pathogen-free facilities and undergo a range of medical tests before having their organs removed and being euthanised. As a result, they will have significantly shortened life expectancies, will experience pain and suffering and be subject to a degree of social and environmental deprivation. To minimise the impact o…Read more
Daniel Rodger
London South Bank University
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London South Bank UniversitySenior Lecturer
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