Can the subject-of-a-life criterion help grant rights to non-persons?

In Matti Häyry (ed.), Arguments and Analysis in Bioethics. Rodopi (2010)
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In this paper I compare different criteria for moral status, and assess Regan's notion of a "subject of a life".

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