English Common Law, like many other legal systems, treats the moment of live birth as the
point at which a legal person comes into existence. Abortion, even where prohibited, has …

In 'Dilemma for Appeals to the Moral Significance of Birth', we argued that a dilemma is
faced by those who believe that birth is the event at which infanticide is ruled out. Those who …

Scholars have offered various critiques of Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva's
controversial article,'After‐birth abortion: Why should the baby live?'My book The Ethics of …

Recently, two authors suggested that killing a healthy newborn might be morally
permissible, subsuming it under the heading of 'after birth abortion'. Their proposed new …

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 …

Could it be that if a fetus is not a person abortion is still immoral? One affirmative answer
comes in the form of 'The Impairment Argument', which utilizes 'The Impairment Principle'to …

There are various ways of attempting to defend an extreme liberal view on abortion,
according to which a woman always has the right to control what happens inside her own …

Abortion is one of the controversial issues discussed in medical ethics. We can formulate the
argument which is put forward by the opponents of abortion as follows: 1) fetus has to be …

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 a recent article, William Simkulet has argued against the anti-abortion view by invoking
the fact that many human fetuses die from spontaneous abortion. He argues that this fact …