In an article of this journal, Perry Hendricks makes a novel argument for the immorality of
abortion. According to his impairment argument, abortion is immoral because:(a) it is wrong …

Perry Hendricks has recently presented the impairment argument for the immorality of
abortion, to which I responded and he has now replied. The argument is based on the …

Perry Hendricks' impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on two
premises: first, impairing a fetus with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, and second, if …

In his recent article Perry Hendricks presents what he calls the impairment argument to show
that abortion is immoral. To do so, he argues that to give a fetus fetal alcohol syndrome is …

Perry Hendricks' original impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on the
impairment principle: if impairing an organism to some degree is immoral, then ceteris …

The 'impairment argument'against abortion developed by Perry Hendricks aims to derive the
wrongness of abortion from the wrongness of causing foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) …

Most opposition to abortion stands or falls on whether a fetus is the sort of being whose life it
is seriously wrong to end. In her influential paper 'A defense of abortion,'Judith Jarvis …

Much of the debate about the ethics of abortion has centered on whether the fetus is a
person. In an attempt to sidestep this complex issue, I argue that, even if the fetus is not a …

Perry Hendricks' original 'impairment argument'against abortion relied on 'the impairment
principle'(TIP):'if it is immoral to impair an organism O to the nth degree, then, ceteris …

In this chapter, I present the Impairment Argument, which purports to show that abortion is
immoral even if the fetus is not a person. What drives the argument is the fact that nonlethally …