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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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The Interest View | |
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Consciousness and Interests | |
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Is Consciousness Necessary for Having Interests? | |
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Is Consciousness Sufficient for Having Interests? | |
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The Interests of Nonconscious Individuals | |
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Dead People | |
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Permanently Unconscious People | |
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Infants with Anencephaly | |
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Future People | |
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The Parfit Problem and the Farther Future | |
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Potential People: Embryos and Fetuses | |
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Abortion | |
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The Moral Standing of the Fetus | |
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The Conservative Position | |
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Fetal Sentience | |
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Implantation | |
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The Person View | |
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The Right to Life | |
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The Argument From Potential | |
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The Logical Problem | |
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Contraception and the Moral Standing of Gametes | |
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The Future-Like-Ours Account | |
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Identity | |
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The Embodied Mind Account | |
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The Biological View | |
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The Interest View and the Time-Relative Interests Account | |
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Sentient Fetuses | |
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Possible People | |
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The Nonidentity Problem | |
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The Argument From Bodily Self-Determination | |
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Thomson's Defense of Abortion | |
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Roe v. Wade | |
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The Moral and Legal Significance of Viability | |
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Late Abortions | |
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Partial-Birth Abortion | |
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Beyond Abortion: The Fetus in Tort and Criminal Law | |
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Recovery for Prenatal Injury in Torts | |
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Against Third Parties | |
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The Irrelevance of Viability | |
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Preconception Torts | |
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Against the Mother | |
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The Woman's Right of Privacy | |
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Automobile Liability | |
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Prenatal Wrongful Death | |
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Wrongful-Death Actions | |
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The Implications for Abortion | |
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The Criminal Law | |
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Prenatal Neglect | |
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Homicide | |
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Wrongful Life | |
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Maternal-Fetal Conflict | |
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Moral Obligations to the Not-Yet-Born | |
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Risks to the Fetus | |
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Pregnant Women and the Law | |
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Delivering Drugs Through the Umbilical Cord | |
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Criminal Prosecution for Child Abuse or Endangerment | |
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Criminal Prosecution for Homicide | |
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Jailing the Pregnant Addict | |
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Termination of Parental Rights | |
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Compulsory Cesarean Sections | |
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The Implications of Roe v. Wade | |
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McFall v. Shimp and the Duty to Rescue | |
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Less Invasive Cases | |
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Assisted Reproductive Technology | |
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The Science of Assisted Reproductive Technology | |
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In Vitro Fertilization | |
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Health Risks to Women | |
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Health Risks to Offspring | |
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Procreative Liberty and Its Critics | |
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John Robertson | |
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Adoption and the Right to Have Biologically Related Children | |
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Core Values and Penumbral Interests | |
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The Interests of Children and the Nonidentity Problem | |
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Limits to Procreative Liberty | |
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Postmenopausal Mothers | |
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The Risk of Transmitting Disease or Disability | |
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Multiple Births | |
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Dispositional Problems | |
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Davis v. Davis | |
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Kass v. Kass | |
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Gamete Donation | |
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Sperm Donation | |
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Egg Donation | |
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Stem Cell Research | |
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The Science | |
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Adult Stem Cells | |
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells | |
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Cloning: Reproductive Versus Therapeutic | |
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The Moral Standing of the Human Embryo | |
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The Twinning Problem | |
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Respect for Embryos | |
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Kantian Respect | |
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Moral Standing Versus Moral Value | |
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The Basis for Ascribing Moral Value to Human Embryos | |
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The Discarded-Created Distinction | |
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Payment for Oocytes | |
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Chimeras, Hybrids, and Cybrids | |
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Law and Policy in the United States | |
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Cloning Policy | |
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Law and Policy in Other Countries | |
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United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning | |
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Index | |