Peri-viable birth: legal considerations.
Peri-viable birth raises an array of complex moral and legal concerns. This article discusses the problem with defining viability, touches on its relationship to abortion jurisprudence, and analyzes a few interesting normative implications of current medical practice at the time of peri-viable birth.
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02114; Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address: sadath_sayeed@hms.harvard.edu.
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D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D005260:Female; D005328:Fetal Viability; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D052577:Infant, Extremely Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011247:Pregnancy; D028761:Withholding Treatment / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*
Abortion; Ethics; Law; Viability