This paper defends and develops Elizabeth Harman's Actual Future Principle with a concept
called Schrödinger's Fetus. I argue that all early fetuses are Schrödinger's Fetuses: those …

This view is said to justify a" very liberal" position on abortion, that" early abortion requires
no moral justification whatsoever," 3 and show this position to be" more attractive than has …

Peter Singer has argued that nothing done to a fetus before it acquires consciousness can
harm it. At the same time, he concedes that a child can be harmed by something done to it …

Abstract John Martin Fischer and Anthony L. Brueckner have argued that a person's death
is, in many cases, bad for him, whereas a person's prenatal non-existence is not bad for him …

In a paper published in Bioethics, Jason Eberl has argued that early embryos are not
persons and should not be granted the status possessed by them. 1 Eberl bases this …

In Life Before Birth, Bonnie Steinbock identifies some" inconsistencies, both in morality and
the law, in our treatment of the unborn." According to Steinbock," the key" to the resolution of …

I argue that it is wrong deliberately to bring into existence an individual whose life we can
reasonably expect will be of very poor quality. The individual's life would on balance be …

For this collection, RM Hare has selected the best of his writings on medical ethics and
related topics. Its chief theoretical interest lies in its synthesis between utilitarian and Kantian …

In a recent article, I criticized Anthony L. Brueckner and John Martin Fischer's influential
argument—appealing to the rationality of our asymmetric attitudes towards past and future …

When Does Human Life Begin? Page 1 WHITE PAPER Volume 1, Number 1 October 2008 A
Scientific Perspective When Does Human Life Begin? Maureen L. Condic Senior Fellow …