ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the general implications of ectogenesis, it is time to turn to some specifics. It suggests that many people would consider the circumstances of the pregnancy to be of importance in assessing the morality of an abortion. The chapter examines the moral status of embryos and foetuses, and try to determines if these beings do in fact have foetal rights. The development of ectogenesis has been recognised to have important implications for some specific issues in the area of reproductive ethics. Probably the most important of these specific implications is the effect that the development of ectogenesis would have on discussions of the morality of abortion. Discussions that focus solely on the personhood of the foetus can ignore women completely, for the location of the foetus is irrelevant to such an argument. Foetal death is also obviously the aim in cases of abortion due to foetal deformity.
