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 …

I want to understand an argument. By an argument I do not mean a concatenation of
deathless propositions, but something with two sides that you have with someone, not …

The purpose of this essay is to set out an argument for the claim that abortion, except
perhaps in rare instances, is seriously wrong. 1 One reason for these exceptions is to …

I If philosophers are going to apply ethical theory successfully to practical issues, they must
first have a theory. This may seem obvious; but they often proceed as if it were not so. A …

Fortunately, none of the arguments for and against abortion need be expressed in terms of"
rights." As we shall see, Judith Thomson vir-tually admits as much in her" A Defense of …

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 …

Abortion as an ethical issue involves the sense in which the fetus is a person to whom one
has obligations. Beyond that, abortion involves other issues of various degrees of severity …

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 …

What I shall call the Moderate view about the morality of abortion is the view that abortion is
often (though not necessarily always') morally defensible (even) in circumstances in which …

The central thesis of philosopher David Boonin is that the moral case against abortion can
be shown to be unsuccessful on terms that critics of abortion can and do accept. Critically …