Prabhpal Singh has recently defended a relational account of the difference in moral status
between fetuses and newborns as a way of explaining why abortion is permissible and …

In a recent paper, Giubilini and Minerva argue that in cases where in utero abortion is
currently condoned,'after-birth abortion', or infanticide, ought also to be permitted.'For …

Most opposition to induced abortion turns on the belief that human fetuses are persons from
conception. On this view, the moral status of the fetus alone requires those in a position to …

It is commonly held that there can be no morally relevant difference between a fetus inside
the womb and about to be born and that same fetus just after it has been born. Birth, it is …

In a recent article titled 'After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?', Alberto Giubilini
and Francesca Minerva argue that it may be morally permissible to kill a newborn baby …

Our contention is that all of the major arguments for abortion are also arguments for
permitting infanticide. One cannot distinguish the fetus from the infant in terms of a morally …

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 …

W by SISSELA BOK are asked to imagine the following irrational behavior. First, medical
personnel and a pregnant woman cooperate in abortive practices usu-ally fatal to an embryo …

If the unborn are human persons, the principles of justice and non‐maleficence (rightly
understood) prohibit every abortion; that is, every procedure or technical process carried out …

The publication of this book is encouraging fora number ofreasons. It is a major contribution
to medical ethics and its length, depth and thoroughness all bear witness both to the …