How can the abortion issue be resolved? Many believe that the issue can be resolved if, and
only if, we can determine when human life begins. Those opposed to abortion choice …

This article confronts growing conservative opposition to abortion based on the claim that
abortion is morally equivalent to infanticide. By examining the relationship between moral …

What role does birth play in the debate about elective abortion? Does the wrongness of
infanticide imply the wrongness of late-term abortion? In this paper, I argue that the same or …

In 2007 the Supreme Court decided Gonzales v. Carhart, 2 which outlawed certain types of
late-term abortions. The opinion, considered to be a far departure from previous case law …

According to Bertha Manninen, even if fetuses have the same right to life as the rest of us,
abortion would still be morally permissible (Manninen 2010). This is so because a fetus's …

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 …

Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide
ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in …

The argument for the moral permissibility of killing newborns is a challenge to liberal
positions on abortion because it can be considered a reductio of their defence of abortion …