Let C be a causal process that normally leads to outcome E. Let A be an action that initiates
process C, and B be an action involving a minimal expenditure of energy that stops process …

TT sounds very close to truism of moral theory to^ say:" If you act in a way that harms no-one,
then that act is morally permissible unless there is some over-riding moral consideration …

In his well-known article" Abortion and Infanticide," Michael Tooley commits himself to the
claim that a thing has a right to something only if it has the concept of that thing.'I shall call …

This article aims to develop an account of the morality of abortion which is correct and is
useful for developing a policy regarding abortion that is motivated primarily by moral …

As law professors who teach constitutional law, we have noticed a gap in some
presentations of what has been called the liberal position on abortion.'In this comment, we …

So we arrive at claim (3) already having decided that potential persons are not the sort of
beings that can have a right to continued existence, with the intention of inquiring whether …

Is doing nothing sometimes as bad as doing something bad? In this or some less naive form
the question I address in this paper is an old one that has been asked not only by …

Christopher Tollefsen, relying on the new natural law theory, has suggested that in the
Phoenix abortion case, the action might be characterized simply as removing the baby …

The pro-life position on abortion is that abortion is morally wrong because a fetus is an
innocent human being, and killing it is, at least morally speaking, murder.'This claim doesn't …

I If philosophers are going to apply ethical theory successfully to practical issues, they must
first have a theory. This may seem obvious; but they often proceed as if it were not so. A …