ABSTRACT I argue that David Boonin has failed in his attempt to undermine Donald
Marquis's future‐like‐ours argument against abortion. I show that the ethical principle …

A common justification for abortion rights is that the death of the fetus does not violate any of
the fetus's time-relative interests. The time-relative interest account (TRIA) of harm and …

The most plausible pro‐life argument claims that abortion is seriously wrong because it
deprives the foetus of something valuable. This paper examines two recent versions of this …

Confronted with an article defending conclusions that many people judge problematic,
philosophers are interested, first of all, in clarifying exactly what arguments are being offered …

I shall attempt to defend the following moderate view on the question of abortion. At some
nonarbitrary point be tween conception and birth it is morally permissible to destroy a …

Perry Hendricks has recently presented the impairment argument for the immorality of
abortion, to which I responded and he has now replied. The argument is based on the …

PIP: This essay offers a moderate view of abortion that imposes a time limit for unrestricted
abortion and specific indications for later abortions. The introduction notes that the …

Abstract The recent Supreme Court decision upholding Roe v. Wade and in particular, the
dissent by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, sheds new light on the issue of abortion. Let us …

Several recent papers have suggested that the pro-life view entails a radical, implausible
thesis: that miscarriage is the biggest public health crisis in the history of our species and …

There is no issue more central to the abortion debate than the controversial issue of whether
the fetus is a moral person. Abortion-rights opponents almost universally claim that abortion …