Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide
ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in …

Abortions performed during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy sometimes result
in abortuses (aborted fetuses) which might be saved if given vigorous medical care. Does …

Despite the Supreme Court decision in 1973, Roe v. Wade, making abortion legally
available without impedi ment during the first two trimesters of pregnancy, neither the legal …

In the case of abortion, however, it is a conflict about ends. Should we, as a society, allow
abortion to remain legal? Should we judge it to be immoral? By pressing us as a people to …

I As Supreme Court decisions continue to narrow the scope of American women's abortion
rights and state legislatures impose regulations that will predictably frustrate many women's …

In Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life, Jeffrey Reiman argues that an overlooked
clue to the solution of the moral problem of abortion lies in the unusual way in which we …

Civil Dialogue on Abortion provides a cutting-edge discussion between two philosophy
scholars on each side of the abortion debate. Bertha Alvarez Manninen argues for her pro …