This article draws on legal arguments made by civil society organisations to challenge the
legal reasoning that apparently produced the decision in the Ms Y case in Ireland in August …

The human agony involved in abortion is enough to establish it as a significant human
problem, but there are two further reasons for phi losophers and theologians to turn their …

There are some cases in which the government should coerce its citizens into providing care
to vulnerable persons. For example, suppose that a woman and her infant are snowed in a …

We argue against Thomson's view that abortion is permissible even if fetuses have high
moral status. Against this, we argue that, because many mothers are morally responsible for …

The contemporary philosophical literature on abortion primarily revolves around three
seemingly intractable debates, concerning the (1) moral status of the fetus,(2) scope of …

None the less, I believe we have a good reason to conceive a baby, other things being
equal, in the same way as we have a good reason to paint a great painting (even though …

Abortions performed during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy sometimes result
in abortuses (aborted fetuses) which might be saved if given vigorous medical care. Does …

Background and objectives Conscientious refusal of abortion has been discussed widely by
medical ethicists but little information on practitioners' opinions exists. The American College …

This paper shows that the counterexamples proposed by Strong in 2008 in the Journal of
Medical Ethics to Marquis's argument against abortion fail. Strong's basic idea is that there …

The Supreme Court decided Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky in 2019.
Justice Clarence Thomas's opinion in the case claimed there was a direct connection …