In 'Abortion and deprivation: a reply to Marquis', Anna Christensen contends that Don
Marquis' influential 'future like ours' argument for the immorality of abortion faces a …

In a recent article in this journal, Anna Christensen raises an 'Epicurean challenge'to Don
Marquis' much-discussed argument for the immorality of abortion. According to Marquis' …

In 'Why Abortion is Immoral', Don Marquis argues that abortion is wrong for the same reason
that murder is wrong, namely, that it deprives a human being of an FLO, a 'future like …

Anna Christensen argues that it is implausible to claim that abortion and murder are morally
impermissible given that they deprive individuals of a future like ours (or'FLO'). In this essay …

In my essay, Why abortion is immoral, I criticised discussions of the morality of abortion in
which the crucial issue is whether fetuses are human beings or whether fetuses are persons …

With Perry Hendricks, I recently outlined a strengthened version of the impairment argument
(SIA) for the immorality of abortion. Alex Gillham has argued that our use of Don Marquis' …

In his classic paper,'Why abortion is immoral', Don Marquis argues that what makes killing
an adult seriously immoral is that it deprives the victim of the valuable future he/she would …

In my essay, a critique of “the best secular argument against abortion” I reconstructed and
criticised two versions of Don Marquis's well-known argument against abortion. In critiquing …

Don Marquis has put forward a non-religious argument against abortion based on what he
claims is a morally relevant similarity between killing adult human beings and killing fetuses …

This paper shows that the counterexamples proposed by Strong in 2008 in the Journal of
Medical Ethics to Marquis's argument against abortion fail. Strong's basic idea is that there …