… For, it seems to me that one can use the ideas in this paper to account for a significant
moral distinction between abortion after the point of viability and infanticide, rendering the first …

… fetus is morally right. Stephan Schwarz is among those who have argued against abortion; …
He holds that from the very moment of conception the fetus becomes a person with its moral …

… is deployed against viability as a morally significant moment in … which viability can be
understood as a compromise in abortion … VIABILITY IN THE LAW This section outlines how …

… We conclude that relying on any interpretation of viability is morally problematic for
abortion regulation, as it is too indeterminate a concept to establish a threshold in a …

… Abortion is generally defined in terms of the viability of a fetus. Lewis and Tamparo (2007),
for example, defined abortion … Whether or not abortion is moral or justifiable is a very contro…

… For the sake of this paper, we will set aside arguments that viability confers moral status,42
to focus on the argument from consistency.43 Briefly, the intuitive argument is that it appears …

… Second, we present evidence, often neglected in the moral debates about abortion, that the
… 24 weeks gestation7), or for extrauterine viability. Still others have claimed that none of these …

… for moral compromise. Here, I argue those opposed to abortion have a prima facie moral
obligation to … and provide ectogenesis for disconnected fetuses as part of a moral compromise. …

… Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has removed the constitutional right to abortion altogether…
of viability-based abortion around the US I will prove the importance of the viability standard …

… court in Casey ruled that states could now regulate abortion during the entire period before
fetal viability, and they could do so for reasons other than to protect the health of the mother. …