Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses

by Bonnie Steinbock

Book Overview

This book provides a framework for thinking clearly and coherently about the unborn. The book's thesis, the "interest view," states that all and only beings who have interests have moral standing, and only beings who possess conscious awareness have interests. The chapters apply the interest view, and explore the moral and legal aspects of a wide range of issues.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195108728
• ISBN13: 9780195108729
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"