The law governing abortion varies, not only across the globe, but also throughout Australia.
Some jurisdictions, such as Western Australia, have very liberal laws specifically set out by …

Abortion is the most difficult and controversial moral issues we will consider. Listen to both
sides, even if that is difficult to do. Both sides have important moral insights, even if ultimately …

At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the
liberal feminist group it is the woman's autonomy over her own body; for the conservative/pro …

This article contends that the problem of abortion is essentially philosophical rather than
jurisprudential. Although much debate derives from diverse, and sometimes contradictory …

Christian pro-lifers often respond to Thomson's defense of abortion that the violinist is
allowed to die while the embryo is killed. Boonin and McMahan counter that this distinction …

This article is a critical review of David Boonin's book, A Defense of Abortion (Cambridge
University Press, 2002), a significant contribution to the literature on this subject and …

The status of abortion as murder, and therefore amenable to governmental intervention and
criminalization, has been asserted by those favoring limits on abortion. Opponents claim a …

In January 2012, the Journal of Medical Ethics published online Giubilini and Minerva's
paper,'After-birth abortion. Why should the baby live?'. 1 The Journal publishes articles …

Since the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade,'which famously held that a woman
enjoyed a fundamental right to terminate a pregnancy, many scholars have been …