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Tytuł pozycji:

Challenging the 'Born Alive' Threshold: Fetal Surgery, Artificial Wombs, and the English Approach to Legal Personhood.

Tytuł:
Challenging the 'Born Alive' Threshold: Fetal Surgery, Artificial Wombs, and the English Approach to Legal Personhood.
Autorzy:
Romanis EC; Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Źródło:
Medical law review [Med Law Rev] 2020 Feb 01; Vol. 28 (1), pp. 93-123.
Typ publikacji:
Journal Article
Język:
English
Imprint Name(s):
Publication: 1999- : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Original Publication: Oxford : Published by Oxford University Press in association with the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London, c1993-
MeSH Terms:
Jurisprudence*
Live Birth*
Parturition*
Personhood*
Uterus*
Artificial Organs/*ethics
Fetoscopy/*ethics
Beginning of Human Life ; England ; Female ; Humans ; Pregnancy
Grant Information:
208245/Z/17/Z United Kingdom WT_ Wellcome Trust
Contributed Indexing:
Keywords: Artificial Wombs; Born Alive Rule; Fetal Surgery; Law of Birth; Legal Personhood; Viability
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20190604 Date Completed: 20201026 Latest Revision: 20210109
Update Code:
20240105
DOI:
10.1093/medlaw/fwz014
PMID:
31155656
Czasopismo naukowe
English law is unambiguous that legal personality, and with it all legal rights and protections, is assigned at birth. This rule is regarded as a bright line that is easily and consistently applied. The time has come, however, for the rule to be revisited. This article demonstrates that advances in fetal surgery and (anticipated) artificial wombs do not marry with traditional conceptions of birth and being alive in law. These technologies introduce the possibility of ex utero gestation, and/or temporary existence ex utero, and consequently developing human beings that are novel to the law. Importantly, therefore, the concepts of birth and born alive no longer distinguish between human beings deserving of legal protection in the way originally intended. Thus, there is a need for reform, for a new approach to determining the legal significance of birth and what being legally alive actually encompasses. Investigating the law of birth is of crucial importance, because of the implications of affording or denying the subjects of new reproductive technologies rights and protections. A determination of the legal status of the subject of fetal surgery or an artificial womb will determine what can and cannot be done to each entity. Moreover, the status afforded to these entities will drastically impact on the freedoms of pregnant women.
(© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press.)

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