Title

Compassion and the Personalism of American Jurisprudence: Bioethical Entailments

Department/School

Philosophy

Date

2010

Document Type

Book Chapter

Keywords

medical professional, free choice, human person, assisted suicide, equal protection

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9791-0_4

Abstract

Prima facie, compassion seems to dictate the permissibility of assisted suicide for the terminally ill as well as the permissibility of in vitro fertilization for desperate would-be parents.

Published in

Bioethics with Liberty and Justice: Themes in the Work of Joseph M. Boyle

Citation/Other Information

R. Mary Hayden Lemmons. "Compassion and the Personalism of American Jurisprudence: Bioethical Entailments." Bioethics with Liberty and Justice: Themes in the Work of Joseph M. Boyle, 59-74, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9791-0_4

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