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In The Netherlands, neonatal euthanasia has become a legal option and the Groningen Protocol contains an approach to identify situations in which neonatal euthanasia might be appropriate. In the 5 ...

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Holt argues against my account of the moral disanalogy between the situation of a pregnant person having an abortion and a parent committing the infanticide of their newborn. I explain that this ...

E Feiring, Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, PO Box 1097 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway; eli.feiring{at}stv.uio.no Unhealthy lifestyle contributes ...

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1 Department of Economics, University of Oslo and the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway 2 Division for Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Science, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, ...

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Correspondence to Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 91895, USA; nsjecker{at}uw.edu This paper addresses the just distribution of vaccines ...

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