The Hidden Ethics Battle in the Planned Parenthood Fetal Tissue Scandal

July 24, 2015

(Washington Post) – But they also say there may be an unresolvable impasse in the public response: Can or should the leading provider of women’s health care be shut down in a showdown over the moral status of embryonic and fetal life? “You can’t make this fundamental clash of perspectives go away,” said Tom Beauchamp, Georgetown University professor of philosophy, senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and co-author of one of the foundational texts in the field, “Principles of Biomedical Ethics.”