We defend the view that the obstetrician's response to the abortion controversy cannot be
based on accounts of the independent moral status of the fetus, because all such accounts …

DISPUTES OVER the morality of abortion typically turn on the status of the entity to be
aborted. If one is convinced by what I shall call the genetic argument, that human life begins …

The term" abortion" is conveniently used, for my present dis cussion, to refer to deliberate
removal (or deliberate action to cause the expulsion) of a fetus 1 from the womb of a human …

Even for persons who hold to the ethical acceptance of abortion practices in general,
questions of detail often arise. If you assume the distinction between the physical human …

This paper begins with a review of major difficulties with both extreme conservative and
extreme liberal views on foetal moral status and the morality of abortion. There follows an …

In this article I investigate the ways in which phenomenology could guide our views on the
rights and/or wrongs of abortion. To my knowledge very few phenomenologists have …

interpretation of “desire,” so that a machine that searches for an electrical outlet in order to
get its batteries recharged is described as having a desire to be recharged, then it will not …

The author, who received his Ph. D. from Marquette University in Milwaukee, has served as
assistant professor, then associate professor at St. Thomas College from 1981 to the …

Significant scientific progress has been made toward artificial womb technology, which
would allow part of human gestation to occur outside the body. Bioethical and legal scholars …