Philosophy, University of Michigan, Flint, Michigan, USA
J Med Ethics. 2023 Feb;49(2):146-147. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108583. Epub 2022 Sep 5.
Perry Hendricks' 'impairment argument', which he has defended in this journal, is intended to demonstrate that the generally conceded wrongness of giving a fetus fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) shows that abortion must also be immoral, even if we allow that the fetus is not a rights-bearing moral person. The argument fails because the harm of causing FAS is extrinsic but Hendricks needs it to be intrinsic for it to show anything about abortion. Either the subject of the wrong of causing FAS is a person who does not exist in the case of abortion or the wrong is negligible.
佩里·亨德里克斯（Perry Hendricks）在本刊发表的“损害论点”旨在表明，人们普遍承认给胎儿造成胎儿酒精综合征（FAS）是错误的，这表明堕胎也一定不道德，即使我们承认胎儿不是一个拥有权利的道德人。该论点之所以失败，是因为造成 FAS 的伤害是外在的，但亨德里克斯需要它是内在的，才能证明堕胎有什么问题。在堕胎的情况下，造成 FAS 的错误的主体要么是不存在的人，要么是微不足道的。
