… who think that the ethical status of abortion is contingent on whether or not the fetus is a
person. Despite this apparent consensus, I will argue that the ethical status of abortion is not …

… , I will consider an argument that does not rely on fetal personhood: I will consider the
Impairment Argument, which … That said, I will continue to consider the ethics of giving a fetus FAS. …

… —it does not commit us to an explanation as to why abortion is … So, the impairment argument
just tells us that abortion is … Thus, our modified impairment argument does not commit itself …

… to all versions of the impairment argument, induced abortion is immoral because it causes
a greater impairment for an organism than other actions that cause lesser impairment, at least …

… impairment argument question-begging: we could know that MIP applies to the FAS/abortion …
that the fact that it deprives the fetus of a future like ours makes abortion wrong. But that …

… argued that the ceteris paribus is not met for FAS and abortion, and so we proposed the
modified impairment … Dustin Crummett has responded, arguing that MIP is open to various …

… Much of the literature on the ethics of abortion focuses on the moral status of the fetus. Moral
philosophers on both … If abortion does not impair, the impairment argument fails to show …

… he calls the impairment argument to show that abortion is immoral. To do so, he argues that
to … spent many hours plumbing the depths of The Ethics of Killing7 and his other publications. …

… is that they can be leveraged in other interesting debates in practical ethics. But insofar as it
is intended to be an argument against abortion, it fails, or so we argue throughout this paper. …

… According to the impairment argument for the [im]morality of abortion,1 abortion is immoral
… having a child that can only be achieved by an abortion, so the impairment argument fails. …