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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 | |