Abortion is addressed as a case study of the problems and paradoxes of the pluralistic
proposition, particularly as manifested by the prochoice position. The pluralistic proposition …

In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing
actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has …

Some opponents of abortion claim fetuses are persons from the moment of conception. Call
these “Personhood-At-Conception”(or PAC), opponents of abortion. Amy Berg (2017 …

Giubilini and Minerva ask why birth should be a critical dividing line between acceptable
and unacceptable reasons for terminating existence. Their argument is that birth does not …

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967
when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral …

The purpose of this essay is to compare the substantial identity argument for the wrongness
of abortion to the future of value argument for its wrongness. Both arguments take for …

I, being subject to no religious dogma in this respect—I am an Anglican—cannot find it in
me, and I do not believe I ever shall find it in me, to regard the non-viable foetus in utero as a …

Philosophy and bioethics journals occasionally publish controversial contributions.
Sometimes these contributions address real-life issues, and sometimes not–or at least not …

Also, this essay will neglect issues of great importance to a complete ethics of abortion.
Some anti‐-abortionists will allow that certain abortions, such as abortion before …

In a recent paper, Giubilini and Minerva argue for the moral permissibility of what they call
'after-birth abortion', or infanticide. Here I suggest that they actually employ a confusion of …