Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?

Bioethics 1 (2):219-220 (2022)
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Heartbeat bills are laws prohibiting abortion in most circumstances once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, and are common in US states. They have been criticised as poorly designed and disingenuous. In this letter to the editor I examine these criticisms.

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10.1111/bioe.13102

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Bruce P. Blackshaw
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