This view is said to justify a" very liberal" position on abortion, that" early abortion requires
no moral justification whatsoever," 3 and show this position to be" more attractive than has …

Kenneth Einar Himma has argued that Christians can reasonably adopt a prochoice position
on abortion on the basis that Christians can reasonably believe that abortion does not hann …

In a recent article, RM Hare has argued that the proper way to approach the abortion debate
is not through appeals to our moral intuitions, nor yet by appealing either to the rights of the …

In" Metaphysics and the Morality of Abortion," Earl Conee argues that" there is no
metaphysical support for a moral conclusion about abortion"(Conee 1999, p. 644). 1 Conee …

The most iUlportant contribution which professional philosophers could make to the debate
concerning abortion would be to produce a detailed conceptual analysis of the sorts of …

I If philosophers are going to apply ethical theory successfully to practical issues, they must
first have a theory. This may seem obvious; but they often proceed as if it were not so. A …

It is common for fetal" viability" to be dismissed out of hand as a morally arbitrary or problem-
ridden criterion for fetal" personhood." In this essay I want to examine and reject one …

I In recent years I have defended an argument for the immorality of abortion based on the
fact that most fetuses have futures like ours. 1 Let us call this argument'the FLO argument' …

Abstract In “Creation Ethics: The Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion,”
Elizabeth Harman has offered a novel approach to settling the question of the moral status of …

Says one critic of the philosophical debate on abortion:" Philosophers are not listened to
because they do not listen." 1 Though I believe the charge is too strong, my own review of …