
Medical developments have given people unprecedented control over the beginning and end of life but have also altered traditional and legal concepts of personhood. Recent court decisions on prefetal life, fetuses, the infirm, and the dying reflect a struggle with the new ambiguity surrounding the definition of "person."
Brain Death, Persons with Disabilities, Human Rights, Individuality, Fertilization in Vitro, Embryonic and Fetal Development, Fetus, Fetal Tissue Transplantation, Pregnancy, Civil Rights, Humans, Bioethical Issues, Fetal Viability, Beginning of Human Life, Jurisprudence, Abortion, Induced, Bioethics, Embryo, Mammalian, Euthanasia, Passive, United States, Human Experimentation, Abortion, Legal, Dementia, Female, Advance Directives, Homicide
Brain Death, Persons with Disabilities, Human Rights, Individuality, Fertilization in Vitro, Embryonic and Fetal Development, Fetus, Fetal Tissue Transplantation, Pregnancy, Civil Rights, Humans, Bioethical Issues, Fetal Viability, Beginning of Human Life, Jurisprudence, Abortion, Induced, Bioethics, Embryo, Mammalian, Euthanasia, Passive, United States, Human Experimentation, Abortion, Legal, Dementia, Female, Advance Directives, Homicide
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