Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric (Dec 2019)
Status of Baby Born to Brain-dead Mother: Ethical and Logical Issues
Abstract
The study aims to analyse the clinical proceedings in pregnant women diagnosed with brain death. Apart from the diagnostic premises and the patient’s rights, the ontological status of the foetus proves to be a severe problem. In reference to the principles of zeroth-order logic, the assumption of potential used by personalists is not a tautology.