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The original thought experiment is commonly referred to as
You can google that and find all kinds of papers and discussions around it. I realize this is not new informaiton, but I'm not sure if the actual name of the thought experiment have been mentioned before.
I'm not sure if this is the original source but its from a paper
Another term is the
[URL unfurl="true"]https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=phil_fac[/URL]
from 2009. You can search "embryo rescue case" and there's results going back to the late 90s.
Thats it thats the thread.
THe Burning IVF Lab thought experiment
You can google that and find all kinds of papers and discussions around it. I realize this is not new informaiton, but I'm not sure if the actual name of the thought experiment have been mentioned before.
I'm not sure if this is the original source but its from a paper
[1] Stretton, Dean, Critical Notice–Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice by Francis J. Beckwith. [review article]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 34(11), p. 795, as cited in The Ethics of Abortion by Christopher Kaczor, (Routledge: New York), 2011, p. 139.
Another term is the
embryo rescue case
[URL unfurl="true"]https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1099&context=phil_fac[/URL]
In another argument, commonly known as the “embryo rescue case,” Stretton imagines a scenario in which an emergency arises and a person is faced with the choice of rescuing ten frozen human embryos or five adult patients. Since virtually everyone would choose to save the adult patients rather than the embryos, this indicates that the patients have a higher moral status than the frozen human embryos.
from 2009. You can search "embryo rescue case" and there's results going back to the late 90s.
Thats it thats the thread.