This essay defends the asymmetry between the badness of spontaneous and induced
abortions in order to explain why anti-abortionists prioritize stopping induced abortions over …

It is widely assumed that induced abortion is sometimes necessary to preserve a pregnant
woman's life or health. Yet, while it is true that ending pregnancy is sometimes required to …

A substantial proportion of human embryos spontaneously abort soon after conception, and
ethicists have argued this is problematic for the pro-life view that a human embryo has the …

Finally, and most importantly, Ord (2008) ignores the distinction between doing evil and
failing to do good. We are always responsible for the former (absent excusing conditions) …

Mary Anne Warren provides a well‐known defense of the liberal position in the abortion
debate, yet her argument is subject to the objection that it implies that infanticide is 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 purpose of this essay is to set out an argument for the claim that abortion, except
perhaps in rare instances, is seriously wrong. 1 One reason for these exceptions is to …

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 …

There are some cases in which the government should coerce its citizens into providing care
to vulnerable persons. For example, suppose that a woman and her infant are snowed in a …

In my essay, a critique of “the best secular argument against abortion” I reconstructed and
criticised two versions of Don Marquis's well-known argument against abortion. In critiquing …