Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos

1. Introduction: What Are Persons? What Is Valuable?
Stephen Napier

2. I Was Once a Fetus: That Is Why Abortion Is Wrong
Alexander R. Pruss

3. Brain Life and the Argument from Potential: Affirming the Ontological Status of Human Embryos and Fetuses
Jason T. Eberl, Brandon P. Brown

4. The Human Being, a Person of Substance: A Response to Dean Stretton
Francis J. Beckwith

5. The Concept of Person in Bioethics
Anselm Winfried Müller

6. Abortion and Virtue Ethics
Mathew Lu

7. Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism, and Moral Status
David B. Hershenov

8. The Christian Hypothesis
David W. Fagerberg

9. Fetal Interests, Fetal Persons, and Human Goods
Christopher Tollefsen

10. Fetal Pains and Fetal Brains
A.A. Howsepian

11. A Biological Definition of the Human Embryo
Maureen L. Condic

12. Public Reason and Abortion Revisited
David Thunder

13. Abortion, Sexual Markets and the Law
Helen M. Alvaré

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Ethics