Prolife hypocrisy: why inconsistency arguments do not matter

N Colgrove, BP Blackshaw, D Rodger - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Opponents of abortion are often described as 'inconsistent'(hypocrites) in terms of their
beliefs, actions and/or priorities. They are alleged to do too little to combat spontaneous …

Why inconsistency arguments matter

J Shaw - The New Bioethics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abortion opponents are sometimes accused of having inconsistent beliefs, actions, and/or
priorities. If they were consistent, they would regard spontaneous abortions to be a greater …

The inconsistency argument: why apparent pro-life inconsistency undermines opposition to induced abortion

W Simkulet - Journal of Medical ethics, 2022 - jme.bmj.com
Most opposition to induced abortion turns on the belief that human fetuses are persons from
conception. On this view, the moral status of the fetus alone requires those in a position to …

Miscarriage can kill… but it usually does Not: evaluating inconsistency arguments

JA Bohn - The New Bioethics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Recent publications debate the value of inconsistency arguments. Here, I argue that 'Cause
of Death Arguments'—inconsistency arguments that claim miscarriage causes death far …

Inconsistency arguments still do not matter

BP Blackshaw, N Colgrove, D Rodger - Journal of Medical ethics, 2022 - jme.bmj.com
William Simkulet has recently criticised Colgrove et al's defence against what they have
called inconsistency arguments—arguments that claim opponents of abortion (OAs) act in …

The scourges: why abortion is even more morally serious than Miscarriage

C Miller - The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Several recent papers have suggested that the pro-life view entails a radical, implausible
thesis: that miscarriage is the biggest public health crisis in the history of our species and …

MIP does not save the impairment argument against abortion: a reply to Blackshaw and Hendricks

D Crummett - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks' original 'impairment argument'against abortion relied on 'the impairment
principle'(TIP):'if it is immoral to impair an organism O to the nth degree, then, ceteris …

The impairment argument for the immorality of abortion revisited

BP Blackshaw - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Perry Hendricks has recently presented the impairment argument for the immorality of
abortion, to which I responded and he has now replied. The argument is based on the …

Cursed lamp: the problem of spontaneous abortion

W Simkulet - Journal of medical ethics, 2017 - jme.bmj.com
Many people believe human fetuses have the same moral status as adult human persons,
that it is wrong to allow harm to befall things with this moral status, and thus voluntary …

(Regrettably) Abortion remains immoral: The impairment argument defended

PC Hendricks - 2019 - philpapers.org
In my article" Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The impairment
argument"(this journal), I defended what I called “The impairment argument” which purports …