I argue here that the impairment principle requires clarification. It needs to explain what
makes one impairment greater than another, otherwise we will be unable to make the …

The impairment argument claims that abortion is immoral, because it results in a greater
impairment to a fetus than other actions that are clearly immoral, such as inflicting fetal …

Abstract Hendricks' The Impairment Argument (TIA) claims that it is immoral to impair a fetus
by causing it to have fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Since aborting a fetus impairs it to a …

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 …

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 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' 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 …

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 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', which he has defended in this journal, is intended to
demonstrate that the generally conceded wrongness of giving a fetus fetal alcohol syndrome …