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    Supports→The principle of double effect inadequately explains the asymmetry between the permissibility of hysterectomy on a pregnant woman and the impermissibility of abortion to save a woman's life

    Warren Quinn's 1989 analysis of PDE distinguishes 'direct' harm where the victim's condition is used from 'indirect' harm where it is merely affected, placing these cases in categorically different moral structures.

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    Direct harm(as a key distinction in Double Effect doctrine)
    Harm that is the main point or means of an action, rather than an unintended side effect.
    Indirect harm(as used in ethics)
    Damage or injury that happens as a side effect or secondary consequence of an action, rather than being the direct target or main result.
    Moral structures(as the different ethical categories Quinn identifies)
    The underlying rules or frameworks that determine whether an action is right or wrong.
    PDE(as the main concept Quinn analyzes)
    An abbreviation for 'Principle of Double Effect'—a moral rule that tries to distinguish between harm you directly cause versus harm that happens as a side effect of your actions.
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    A 20th-century American philosopher who wrote influential work on ethics, particularly on the moral difference between actively harming someone versus passively allowing harm to happen.

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