{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,8]],"date-time":"2025-04-08T11:49:00Z","timestamp":1744112940201},"reference-count":7,"publisher":"BMJ","issue":"11","content-domain":{"domain":["bmj.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["J Med Ethics"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2018,11]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>In a recent article, William Simkulet has argued against the anti-abortion view by invoking the fact that many human fetuses die from spontaneous abortion. He argues that this fact poses a dilemma for proponents of the anti-abortion view: either they must abandon their anti-abortion view or they must engage in preventing spontaneous abortion significantly more than at present\u2014either to the extent that they try to prevent induced abortion or at least significantly more than they do today. In this reply, I acknowledge that, if the latter would follow, the anti-abortionist view would imply implausibly strong obligations. My aim with this reply is to demonstrate that anti-abortionists can hold on to their view without having implausibly strong obligations to prevent spontaneous abortion. My conclusion is that Simkulet clearly overstates his position by not sufficiently considering the differences between the act of killing versus death by natural causes and between positive and negative rights.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1136\/medethics-2017-104688","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,31]],"date-time":"2018-07-31T11:00:45Z","timestamp":1533034845000},"page":"743-745","update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Within the limits of the defensible: a response to Simkulet\u2019s argument against the pro-life view on the basis of spontaneous abortion"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"44","author":[{"given":"Henrik","family":"Friberg-Fernros","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"2020050722451923000_44.11.743.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/medethics-2016-104018"},{"key":"2020050722451923000_44.11.743.2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1217","DOI":"10.1007\/s11098-016-0750-z","article-title":"Abortion and miscarriage","volume":"174","author":"Berg","year":"2017","journal-title":"Philos Stud"},{"key":"2020050722451923000_44.11.743.3","first-page":"47","article-title":"A defense of abortion","volume":"1","author":"Thomson","year":"1971","journal-title":"Philosophy and Public Affairs"},{"key":"2020050722451923000_44.11.743.4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kaczor C . The ethics of abortion: women\u2019s rights, human life, and the question of justice. Routledge, 2011:12.","DOI":"10.4324\/9780203841167"},{"key":"2020050722451923000_44.11.743.5","unstructured":"Lee P . Abortion and unborn human life: CUA Press, 2010:1."},{"key":"2020050722451923000_44.11.743.6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Beckwith FJ . Defending life: a moral and legal case against abortion choice: Cambridge University Press, 2007:xii.","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9780511804885"},{"key":"2020050722451923000_44.11.743.7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"12","DOI":"10.1080\/15265160802248146","article-title":"The scourge: moral implications of natural embryo loss","volume":"8","author":"Ord","year":"2008","journal-title":"The American Journal of Bioethics"}],"container-title":["Journal of Medical Ethics"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/syndication.highwire.org\/content\/doi\/10.1136\/medethics-2017-104688","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,25]],"date-time":"2020-09-25T19:35:02Z","timestamp":1601062502000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/lookup\/doi\/10.1136\/medethics-2017-104688"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,31]]},"references-count":7,"journal-issue":{"issue":"11","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,25]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2018,11]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1136\/medethics-2017-104688"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/medethics-2017-104688","relation":{},"ISSN":["0306-6800","1473-4257"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0306-6800","type":"print"},{"value":"1473-4257","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,31]]}}}