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Gestation most certainly matters, but it need not involve an ‘emotional relationship’ Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Defending superior moral status in pregnancy: a response to commentaries Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.
Heloise Robinson is the Singer Fellow in Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She holds a DPhil from Oxford, and her research is in the field of medical law and ethics, with a particular focus on disability issues in law and philosophy. A recent decision of the Court of Appeal involved a very interesting legal challenge based on an alleged negative ‘message’ in the law.
Women and creation A second justification for the recognition of a superior moral status for pregnant women is that pregnant women are performing a role which is of supreme importance: that of creating new human life, and maintaining the survival of the human species. It is true that, for our survival as a species, our creation through pregnancy is insufficient. The newborn baby will not survive for long without significant care, and its mother is not the only one who can provide this.
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