MIP does not save the impairment argument against abortion: a reply to Blackshaw and Hendricks

D Crummett - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks' original 'impairment argument'against abortion relied on 'the impairment
principle'(TIP):'if it is immoral to impair an organism O to the nth degree, then, ceteris …

Fine-tuning the impairment argument

BP Blackshaw, P Hendricks - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks' original impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on the
impairment principle: if impairing an organism to some degree is immoral, then ceteris …

Strengthening the impairment argument against abortion

BP Blackshaw, P Hendricks - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks' impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on two
premises: first, impairing a fetus with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, and second, if …

The impairment argument for the immorality of abortion revisited

BP Blackshaw - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Perry Hendricks has recently presented the impairment argument for the immorality of
abortion, to which I responded and he has now replied. The argument is based on the …

Against the impairment argument: a reply to Hendricks

J Räsänen - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In an article of this journal, Perry Hendricks makes a novel argument for the immorality of
abortion. According to his impairment argument, abortion is immoral because:(a) it is wrong …

Strengthened impairment argument does not restate Marquis

BP Blackshaw - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
With Perry Hendricks, I recently outlined a strengthened version of the impairment argument
(SIA) for the immorality of abortion. Alex Gillham has argued that our use of Don Marquis' …

Strengthened impairment argument: restating Marquis?

A Gillham - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Blackshaw and Hendricks recently developed a strengthened version of the impairment
argument (SIA) that imports Marquis' account of the wrongness of abortion. I then argued …

Violinists, demandingness, and the impairment argument against abortion

D Crummett - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The 'impairment argument'against abortion developed by Perry Hendricks aims to derive the
wrongness of abortion from the wrongness of causing foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) …

Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The impairment argument

P Hendricks - Bioethics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Much of the debate about the ethics of abortion has centered on whether the fetus is a
person. In an attempt to sidestep this complex issue, I argue that, even if the fetus is not a …

The impairment argument for the immorality of abortion: a reply

BP Blackshaw - Bioethics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In his recent article Perry Hendricks presents what he calls the impairment argument to show
that abortion is immoral. To do so, he argues that to give a fetus fetal alcohol syndrome is …