Most opposition to abortion stands or falls on whether a fetus is the sort of being whose life it
is seriously wrong to end. In her influential paper 'A defense of abortion,'Judith Jarvis …

This is a reply to Don Marquis''Why Abortion is Immoral.'Marquis, who asserts that abortion is
morally wrong, bases his argument on the following premise: Killing a being is morally …

Abstract Edmund Pellegrino and David Thomasma's writings have had a worldwide impact
on discourse about the philosophy of medicine, professionalism, bioethics, healthcare …

In a recent article, William Simkulet has argued against the anti-abortion view by invoking
the fact that many human fetuses die from spontaneous abortion. He argues that this fact …

“This correspondence is now closed”: but in medical ethics the traditional editorial fiat is
often less easy to issue. The quality of argument and counter-argument demonstrated by so …

In a previous paper, I had argued that Strong's counterexamples to Marquis's argument
against abortion—according to which terminating fetuses is wrong because it deprives them …

At the 2005 annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the
lifetime achievement award was presented to Eric Cassell, MD, of the Weill Medical College …

Tom Walker has launched a double attack on the Four Principles approach to biomedical
ethics (henceforth ''principlism''). 1 He questions both the descriptive comprehensiveness of …

The traditional approach to the abortion debate revolves around numerous issues, such as
whether the foetus is a person, whether the foetus has rights, and more. Don Marquis …

The article by Tavaglione and Hurst (2012) takes up the incredibly pertinent and pressing
moral issue of “gaming the system,” wherein physicians lie in order to obtain medically …