VIRTUAL SEMINAR – Pregnancy and superior moral status: a proposal for two thresholds of personhood – RECORDING
This is a recording of the online seminar that took place on 19th July 2023 featuring Heloise Robinson
Heloise Robinson is the Singer Fellow in Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford. Her research is in the field of medical law and ethics, with a particular focus on disability issues, and on questions relating to women and pregnancy.
In her paper, titled ‘Pregnancy and superior moral status: a proposal for two thresholds of personhood’, Dr Robinson suggests that, if we are committed to accepting a threshold approach to personhood, according to which all beings above the threshold are persons with equal moral status, there are strong reasons to also recognise a second threshold that would be reached through human pregnancy, and that would confer on pregnant women a temporary superior moral status.
Paper available freely via the Journal of Medical Ethics: https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2023/05/30/jme-2022-108799