Bioethics and the Fetus

Bioethics and the Fetus: Medical, Moral, and Legal Issues is the ninth volume in the Biomedical Ethics Reviews series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today. All of the essays in this volume examine moral and/or legal problems involving human fetal life; summaries of these essays may be found in the text's Introduction. Bioethics is, by its nature, interdisciplinary in character. Recog nizing this fact, the authors represented in the present volume have made every effort to minimize the use of technical jargon. At the same time, we believe the purpose of providing a review of the recent literature, as well as of advancing bioethical discussion, is well served by the pieces collected herein. We look forward to the next volume in our series, and very much hope the reader will also. James M. Humber Robert F. Almeder vii Contributors Andrea L. Bonnicksen Department of Political Science, Northern lllinois University, DeKalb, lllinois David W. Drebushenko Department of Philosophy, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan Roger B. Dworkin School of Law, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Mary B. Mahowald Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, lllinois Christine Overall Department of Philosophy, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada WadeL. Robison College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York Barbara Katz Rothman Department of Sociology, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, New York Thomas A.