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 …

At the heart of the wide-ranging abortion debate is the concern that it is another human
being, one like ourselves, that we destroy in the abortion procedure, and Tristram …

I discuss three topics. First, there is a philosophical connecting thread between several
recent trends in the abortion discussion, namely, the issue of our animal nature, and …

The real effect of the abortion laws as they seem certain to appear in five years is not so
much the loss of the unborn. We may survive that with calluses on top of our psychic scars …

Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law
of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law …

In his recent article “Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The Impairment
Argument,” Perry Hendricks sets out to sidestep thorny metaphysical questions regarding …

What role does birth play in the debate about elective abortion? Does the wrongness of
infanticide imply the wrongness of late-term abortion? In this paper, I argue that the same or …

Our contention is that all of the major arguments for abortion are also arguments for
permitting infanticide. One cannot distinguish the fetus from the infant in terms of a morally …

Abortion is one of the great moral debates of the epoch. Is there a rational method by which
the debate can be resolved? Can bioethics' promise of such a method be fulfilled? Surely, a …

The term “abortion” is used in this discussion to refer to deliberate removal (or deliberate
action to cause the expulsion) of a fetus 2 from the womb of a human female, at the request …