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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1996 Oct 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1996 Jul 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1996 Jan 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Choice, Conscience, And Context, Mary Crossley Jan 1996

Choice, Conscience, And Context, Mary Crossley

Articles

Building on Professor Michael H. Shapiro's critique of arguments that some uses of new reproductive technologies devalue and use persons inappropriately (which is part of a Symposium on New Reproductive Technologies), this work considers two specific practices that increasingly are becoming part of the new reproductive landscape: selective reduction of multiple pregnancy and prenatal genetic testing to enable selective abortion. Professor Shapiro does not directly address either practice, but each may raise troubling questions that sound suspiciously like the arguments that Professor Shapiro sought to discredit. The concerns that selective reduction and prenatal genetic screening raise, however, relate not to …


The Law And Ethics Of Organ Sales, Keith N. Hylton Jan 1996

The Law And Ethics Of Organ Sales, Keith N. Hylton

Faculty Scholarship

The proposed solutions to my hair supply hypothetical, transfer of property and reliance on altruism, are essentially the only two solutions formally adopted in response to the real world "organ supply" problem.' Because of the shortcomings of these solutions, a number of commentators, myself among them, 2 have suggested the allowance of some limited commerce in body parts. This solution can be seen as a compromise between the extremes of transferring property rights and relying entirely on altruism. Property rights are maintained under the market system because anyone who wants the body part of another must gain the consent of …