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    Teleology and the Problem of Bodily-Rights Arguments.Nicholas M. Ramirez - 2023 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 23 (1):83-97.
    In this paper I argue that teleology and a proper teleological analysis of the uterus is important for a comprehensive understanding of the rights of the unborn. I argue that a right to life entails the right to use those organs that naturally function for an individual’s survival. Consequently, an unborn child has a right to his mother’s uterus. If this is accepted, bodily-rights arguments for abortion such as those proposed by Judith Jarvis Thomson and David Boonin are completely undermined. (...)
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    Heterologous Embryo Transfer: A Thomistic Approach.Nicholas M. Ramirez - 2024 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 24 (3):437-446.
    In this paper, I will argue that heterologous embryo transfer (HET) is malum in se because it involves a disordered use of a woman’s gestative faculty. Against most HET opponents, I will argue for and defend the distinction between the generative faculty or procreation and the gestative faculty or gestation, grounded in St. Thomas Aquinas’s explanation for how faculties are distinguished. Against the advocates of HET, I will argue that a thorough analysis of the gestative faculty and its natural object (...)
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