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Does the personhood argument inevitably imply infanticide?

Journal of Humanities
2019, (74), pp.207-229
DOI : 10.31310/HUM.074.07

Publisher : Institute for Humanities
Research Area : Other Humanities

Received : June 28, 2019
Accepted : August 6, 2019
Published : August 31, 2019

Jang Dong-ik ¹

¹공주교육대학교

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The personhood argument is considered as a good strategy for abortion. Although it has these advantages, criticism that it implies infanticide is also being raised at the same time. This criticism is fatal to an ethical theory. Here, I examined whether the argument of personhood necessarily implies infanticide or not. For this purpose, first, I distinguished the concept of ‘murder’ from that of ‘killing’, then explained that murder, not killing, has meaningful relevance to ethics. And considering the their responses to criticism that the personhood argument allows infanticide, I examined that its criticisms of implying infanticide could be overcome by their responses. Even if abortion is approved, it is confirmed that there is a way of opposing infanticide by examining the personhood argument.
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Personhood argument, infanticide, murder, life rights, inherent value

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