… MORAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF ABORTION We will be concerned with both the moral status
… person to terminate, her pregnancy, and the legal status which is appropriate for this act. I …

… We will be concerned with both the moral status of abortion, which for our purposes we may
define as the act which a woman performs in voluntarily terminating, or allowing another …

… For instance, an animal may be said to have moral status if there is at least some moral …
moral requirements that moral status, or what others sometimes call “moral standing” or “moral …

… The myriad of metaphors used to describe the unborn reflects our deep ambivalence
regarding the moral and legal status of embryos and fetuses. The issues here are too complex to …

… principles the universal moral law, fine; but as a practical matter, no moral code can be criticized
… A universal moral law might enable us, at least if we are scientific realists, to conceive of …

… accounts of moral status will have … moral agency account is different from a potentiality
account and how it is preferable to an actual moral agency account of human moral status…

… Hence, the critic’s latest retort would suggest that the difference between the moral status
of wicked officials’ cleaving to the rule of law and the moral status of gun-shooting or card …

… He does not frame his discussion in terms of different moral … of moral status, in an effort to
make sense of the worry that enhancement might produce beings with a higher moral status. It …

… moral law, that is fine with me. But they are too abstract to be criterial. Meaningful moral realism
… A universal moral law might enable us, at least if we are scientific realists, to conceive of …

… say, "Yesterday God decreed that killing shall no longer be morally wrong" or "The moral
law against lying was promulgated on May 1st." Morality, therefore, cannot be any sort of law.7 …