(Co-authored with Elselijn Kingma.) We argue that careful attention to the nature of pregnancy shows that many traditionally important moral distinctions, such the doing/allowing distinction, action/omission distinction and the harming/benefiting distinction, do not apply easily to pregnant people and their fetuses. This has important practical implications in cases of ‘maternal-fetal conflict’.
Our first paper, "Can You Harm Your Foetus? Pregnancy, Barriers and Difficult Deontological Distinctions" addresses pregnancy and the doing/allowing distinction. This paper has been published at Ethics. You can find a discussion of our paper in the ethics blog PEASoup here.