During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public
debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic …

Philosophical and popular thinking about abortion is influenced by the belief that the
fundamental issue in settling the morality of abortion is whether a fetus is a person (is a …

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 …

We will be concerned with both the moral status of abortion, which for our purposes we may
define as the act which a woman performs in voluntarily terminating, or allowing another …

I want to understand an argument. By an argument I do not mean a concatenation of
deathless propositions, but something with two sides that you have with someone, not …

Most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being, a person,
from the moment of conception. The premise is argued for, but, as I think, not well. Take, for …

Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law
of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law …

The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of abortion more important
than ever. Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most …

The purpose of this essay is to compare the substantial identity argument for the wrongness
of abortion to the future of value argument for its wrongness. Both arguments take for …