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How do we prioritise what matters in life, and whose life matters most? These are questions that are routinely posed in the context of medical care. While the moral status of the embryo is debated, the moral status of a pregnant woman does not change when she becomes pregnant. As the public focus has shifted onto the fetus in the abortion debate, the situation of the pregnant woman seems to have become marginal. The right to the integrity of one’s body is essential to the widely held Kantian principle that people have intrinsic value and should not be used solely for the benefit of others. When considering the future of a pregnancy, somebody must decide and there is a compelling case for the decision being made by the person who lives with the consequences.
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Furedi, A. (2021). Because Women Are People. In: The Moral Case for Abortion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90189-9_6
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