1. Moreover, there is a growing body of bioethical literature that uses the term “fetus” to refer to the entity that survives abortion.
2. n the significance of sentience, see M. A. Warren (1989) The moral significance of birth. Hypatia 4(3), 49–52.
3. Overall (1987) Chapter4, inEthics and Human Reproduction: A Feminist Analysis. Allen and Unwin, Boston, MA.
4. C. Overall (1987) Ethics and Human Reproduction: A Feminist Analysis. Allen and Unwin, Boston, MA.
5. R. M. Herbenick (1975) Remarks on abortion, abandonment, and adoption opportunities. Philosophy and Public Affairs 5(1), 98–104. This analogy may not be completely appropriate in cases of abortion for fetal abnormality. In such cases, the fetus is very much wanted, yet the fetus itself may be better off dead, not preserved. On the ambiguities of seeking abortion for the benefit of the fetus, see P. F. Camenisch (1983) Abortion: For the fetus’s own sake? in Medical Ethics and Human Life ( J. E. Thomas, ed.) Samuel Stevens, Toronto, pp. 135–143.