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The pregnancy rescue case versus typical abortion.

Alex R Gillham¹

¹Department of Philosophy, St. Bonaventure University, Bonaventure, New York, USA.

|August 2, 2024

Summary

This study challenges the typical moral wrongness of abortion, using Hendricks' pregnancy rescue case (PRC) as a counterexample. It highlights differences in informed consent and impact on other pregnancies, suggesting typical abortions may not be morally wrong.

Keywords:

abortion embryo rescue case informed consent

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Area of Science:

Bioethics
Moral Philosophy
Reproductive Ethics

Background:

Hendricks' pregnancy rescue case (PRC) is used to argue that abortion is typically morally wrong.
Ethical considerations surrounding abortion often hinge on specific case scenarios and their implications.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the moral relevance of differences between the abortion in PRC and typical abortions.
To demonstrate that typical abortions may not be morally wrong, even if the PRC abortion is considered so.

Main Methods:

Developing five modifications to the PRC to highlight morally significant differences.
Comparative ethical analysis of the PRC scenario versus common abortion situations.

Main Results:

Identified lack of informed consent in PRC as a morally relevant distinction.
Highlighted that PRC involves an additional fetal death, unlike most typical abortions.

Conclusions:

The moral status of abortion in PRC differs significantly from typical abortions.
These distinctions suggest that typical abortions do not carry the same moral weight of wrongness as presented in PRC.