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With regard to anencephalic infants, the authors hold:
{ 1 } - Even if there is no effective means of overcoming the pathology from which they suffer, therapeutic care may not be ethically witheld.
{ 2 } - Because the higher brain (cortex) will never develop, they are not persons.
{ 3 } - It is ethical to transplant organs from them while they are still alive.
{ 4 } - Because they may not develop in a manner that fulfils the full potential associated with "person," there is scientific justification to consider them as dead.
{ 5 } - They should be considered living human beings until total brain death occurs.
{ 6 } - There is no real difference between allowing a person to die because a serious pathology exists and directly killing an innocent human being.
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With regard to anencephalic infants, the authors hold:
{ 1 } - Even if there is no effective means of overcoming the pathology from which they suffer, therapeutic care may not be ethically witheld.
{ 2 } - Because the higher brain (cortex) will never develop, they are not persons.
{ 3 } - It is ethical to transplant organs from them while they are still alive.
{ 4 } - Because they may not develop in a manner that fulfils the full potential associated with "person," there is scientific justification to consider them as dead.
{ 5 } - They should be considered living human beings until total brain death occurs.
{ 6 } - There is no real difference between allowing a person to die because a serious pathology exists and directly killing an innocent human being.
See p. 338.
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With regard to anencephalic infants, the authors hold:
{ 1 } - Even if there is no effective means of overcoming the pathology from which they suffer, therapeutic care may not be ethically witheld.
{ 2 } - Because the higher brain (cortex) will never develop, they are not persons.
{ 3 } - It is ethical to transplant organs from them while they are still alive.
{ 4 } - Because they may not develop in a manner that fulfils the full potential associated with "person," there is scientific justification to consider them as dead.
{ 5 } - They should be considered living human beings until total brain death occurs.
{ 6 } - There is no real difference between allowing a person to die because a serious pathology exists and directly killing an innocent human being.
It is not even clear that the cortex is the higher brain in any more than a metaphorical sense, much less the "organ" of personhood. See p. 337.
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With regard to anencephalic infants, the authors hold:
{ 1 } - Even if there is no effective means of overcoming the pathology from which they suffer, therapeutic care may not be ethically witheld.
{ 2 } - Because the higher brain (cortex) will never develop, they are not persons.
{ 3 } - It is ethical to transplant organs from them while they are still alive.
{ 4 } - Because they may not develop in a manner that fulfils the full potential associated with "person," there is scientific justification to consider them as dead.
{ 5 } - They should be considered living human beings until total brain death occurs.
{ 6 } - There is no real difference between allowing a person to die because a serious pathology exists and directly killing an innocent human being.
See p. 337.
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With regard to anencephalic infants, the authors hold:
{ 1 } - Even if there is no effective means of overcoming the pathology from which they suffer, therapeutic care may not be ethically witheld.
{ 2 } - Because the higher brain (cortex) will never develop, they are not persons.
{ 3 } - It is ethical to transplant organs from them while they are still alive.
{ 4 } - Because they may not develop in a manner that fulfils the full potential associated with "person," there is scientific justification to consider them as dead.
{ 5 } - They should be considered living human beings until total brain death occurs.
{ 6 } - There is no real difference between allowing a person to die because a serious pathology exists and directly killing an innocent human being.
See p. 338.
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With regard to anencephalic infants, the authors hold:
{ 1 } - Even if there is no effective means of overcoming the pathology from which they suffer, therapeutic care may not be ethically witheld.
{ 2 } - Because the higher brain (cortex) will never develop, they are not persons.
{ 3 } - It is ethical to transplant organs from them while they are still alive.
{ 4 } - Because they may not develop in a manner that fulfils the full potential associated with "person," there is scientific justification to consider them as dead.
{ 5 } - They should be considered living human beings until total brain death occurs.
{ 6 } - There is no real difference between allowing a person to die because a serious pathology exists and directly killing an innocent human being.
See p. 338.
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With regard to anencephalic infants, the authors hold:
{ 1 } - Even if there is no effective means of overcoming the pathology from which they suffer, therapeutic care may not be ethically witheld.
{ 2 } - Because the higher brain (cortex) will never develop, they are not persons.
{ 3 } - It is ethical to transplant organs from them while they are still alive.
{ 4 } - Because they may not develop in a manner that fulfils the full potential associated with "person," there is scientific justification to consider them as dead.
{ 5 } - They should be considered living human beings until total brain death occurs.
{ 6 } - There is no real difference between allowing a person to die because a serious pathology exists and directly killing an innocent human being.
See p. 338.
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