Expert analysis is indispensable, especially in medical decision making, because it helps
both physicians and patients in making rational decisions. In fact, medical expertise is the …

Many people think that most of their fellow citizens hold either a particularly liberal or a
particularly conservative position on the acceptability of abortion. There is now plenty of …

During deliberations of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Human Embryo Research
Panel in 1994, the panel chairman would refer dismissively to critics who believe human …

Bioethics in Denmark is characterized by confrontation among utilitarian, Protestant
Christian, and egalitarian approaches to moral decision-making. During the last twenty …

94 OPEN PEER COMMENTARIES alter the permissibility of abortion for couples who would
choose to have a child that way. Some (Räsänen 2017) will argue that there would be “no …

Human infants are beings who are obviously vulnerable to the vicissitudes of life in general
and who tend to invoke in us special concern and care. One might therefore expect that our …

The fetus destined to be born rather than aborted has become increasingly an object of
medical and moral concern. With considerable justification, women view this concern …

Changing ingrained ways of thinking about the moral status of members of our species is
often a difficult business—in no small part because of often counterintuitive social …

Those who are morally opposed to abortion generally make several pivotal assumptions.
This paper focuses on the assumption that we have full moral status throughout our …

Giubilini and Minerva argue that the permissibility of abortion entails the permissibility of
infanticide. Proponents of what we refer to as the Birth Strategy claim that there is a morally …