" Babies," remarked Mrs. Jill Knight, a Conservative Protestant Member of Parliament during
a debate in the House of Commons in 1966," are not like bad teeth to be jerked out just …

Such dialectics mark the two issues central in the abortion debate now on appeal before the
Supreme Court and before the entire nation. One view sees the unborn child possessing …

abortion is the way in which they rapidly turn into a discussion of the status of the foetus and
of whether destroying the foetus constitutes the taking of a human life. Since these latter …

Opponents of abortion often defend their position by claiming that the fetus is a person. What
they mean, presumably, is that the fetus shares those attributes, whatever they may be, the …

Most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being, a person,
from the moment of conception. The premise is argued for, but, as I think, not well. Take, for …

Summer 1996 29 baker, the candlestick maker? Those who consider no criterion other than
biology are entitled to their personal choice. But given that development is a complex …

Most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being, a person,
from the moment of conception. The premise is argued for, but, as I think, not well. Take, for …

It seems to me that one of the many flaws in the pro-abortion argument is that choice is the
foundation of morality. Eggebroten affirms this when she states," By the term procreative …

Discussion'The deepest question of value at issue in disputes about abortion is. whether the
existence of a human being—his life—is good in itself, or valuable only as a vehicle or …

I shall attempt to defend the following moderate view on the question of abortion. At some
nonarbitrary point be tween conception and birth it is morally permissible to destroy a …