Medical practitioners tend to define abortion as premature termination of pregnancy, rather
than as premature termination of fetal life. This usage is consistent with their primary …

abortion is the way in which they rapidly turn into a discussion of the status of the foetus and
of whether destroying the foetus constitutes the taking of a human life. Since these latter …

/^\NE of our most fundamental moral intuitions^^ is that, except in the most extreme circum?
stances, it is wrong to take a human life. This in? tuition is, however, not very precise …

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 …

Most philosophers who discuss abortion seem to presuppose that during any period of time
in which a human fetus is not yet a human being abortion remains a matter of negligible …

focus attention upon the ontological status of the fetus and, specifically, to ask whether or not
the fetus is a person. Indeed, as Hare points out, the question of:.. whether the fetus is a …

Abortion as it is presently practiced may simply be an unhappy compromise between two
logically separable actions. An abortion (i) terminates a pregnancy, ending the physical …

Opponents of abortion sometimes hold that it is impermissible because fetuses are persons
from the moment of conception. But miscarriage, which ends up to 89% of pregnancies, is …

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 …

As little as a decade ago most moral philosophers still believed that the exercise of their craft
did not include defending positions on actual moral problems. More recently they have come …