In an earlier essay I explored the question of" What is equality?" within the context of the
thoughts and objectives of the Framers of the American Republic.'I would now like to explore …

James Q, Wilson Page 1 Commentary On Abortion James Q, Wilson tok II ON is a moral
question. Most A people, regardless of how they feel the question should be answered or who …

In this paper, I suggest that, if we are committed to accepting a threshold approach to
personhood, according to which all beings above the threshold are persons with equal …

Despite the Supreme Court decision in 1973, Roe v. Wade, making abortion legally
available without impedi ment during the first two trimesters of pregnancy, neither the legal …

The usual form which the public debate over abortion takes is one in which the “rights” of the
pregnant woman and of the embryo/fetus/“unborn child” are pitted against each other. That …

Defenses of abortion have by and large focussed upon one or the other of two topics: the
question of the personhood of the fetus, or the question of the woman's rights as weighed …

When a woman or girl finds herself pregnant, is it morally permissible for her to end that
pregnancy? One dominant tradition says “no”; its close cousin says “rarely”-exceptions may …

WHY ABORTION IS IMMORAL Page 1 Abortion 367 strike many people as heartless and
immoral; but remember that the very existence of people who feel this way, and who are willing …

When one thinks about the ethics of abortion, one inevitably thinks about rights, since it is in
terms of the concept of rights that much of the debate has been conducted. This is true of …