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Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion
A “universalist” policy on brain death holds that brain death is death, and neurologic criteria for death determination are rightly applied to all, without exemptions or opt outs. This essay argues that advocates of a universalist brain death policy defend the same sort of coercive control of end-of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10624703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37380827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10268-1 |
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description | A “universalist” policy on brain death holds that brain death is death, and neurologic criteria for death determination are rightly applied to all, without exemptions or opt outs. This essay argues that advocates of a universalist brain death policy defend the same sort of coercive control of end-of-life decision-making as “pro-life” advocates seek to achieve for reproductive decision-making, and both are grounded in an illiberal political philosophy. Those who recognize the serious flaws of this kind of public policy with respect to abortion must apply the same logic to brain death. |
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spelling | pubmed-106247032023-11-05 Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion Nair-Collins, Michael J Bioeth Inq Critical Perspectives A “universalist” policy on brain death holds that brain death is death, and neurologic criteria for death determination are rightly applied to all, without exemptions or opt outs. This essay argues that advocates of a universalist brain death policy defend the same sort of coercive control of end-of-life decision-making as “pro-life” advocates seek to achieve for reproductive decision-making, and both are grounded in an illiberal political philosophy. Those who recognize the serious flaws of this kind of public policy with respect to abortion must apply the same logic to brain death. Springer Nature Singapore 2023-06-28 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10624703/ /pubmed/37380827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10268-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Critical Perspectives Nair-Collins, Michael Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion |
title | Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion |
title_full | Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion |
title_fullStr | Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion |
title_full_unstemmed | Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion |
title_short | Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion |
title_sort | abortion, brain death, and coercion |
topic | Critical Perspectives |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10624703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37380827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10268-1 |
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