Could it be that if a fetus is not a person abortion is still immoral? One affirmative answer
comes in the form of 'The Impairment Argument', which utilizes 'The Impairment Principle'to …

Two notable limitations exist on the use of personhood arguments in establishing moral
status. Firstly, although the attribution of personhood may give us sufficient reason to grant …

In their controversial paper 'After-birth abortion', Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva
argue that there is no rational basis for allowing abortion but prohibiting infanticide ('after …

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 …

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public
debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic …

The argument for the moral permissibility of killing newborns is a challenge to liberal
positions on abortion because it can be considered a reductio of their defence of abortion …

This essay deals with the morality of abortion. We argue that abortion is morally
unobjectionable and that society benefits if abortion is available on demand. We begin by …

Every human being is a human person. While this statement seems innocent enough, it
provokes strong opposition in some circles. Many would be inclined to see it as a truism and …

Abortion as an ethical issue involves the sense in which the fetus is a person to whom one
has obligations. Beyond that, abortion involves other issues of various degrees of severity …

What happens when two intelligent and highly informed fictional college students, one
strongly pro-choice and the other vigorously pro-life, are asked to put together a …