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 …

Finally, and most importantly, Ord (2008) ignores the distinction between doing evil and
failing to do good. We are always responsible for the former (absent excusing conditions) …

Giubilini and Minerva argue that the permissibility of abortion entails the permissibility of
infanticide. Proponents of what we refer to as the Birth Strategy claim that there is a morally …

Many people believe human fetuses have the same moral status as adult human persons,
that it is wrong to allow harm to befall things with this moral status, and thus voluntary …

Consider the odd fact? later I will try to show how very odd it is? that the only popular views
about the morality of abortion are also the most ex treme. Philosophical views are no …

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 …

In 'The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral', Hendricks presents The
Pregnancy Rescue Case. In this reply I argue that even if it would be better (ie, less bad) for …

In a recent paper, Giubilini and Minerva argue for the moral permissibility of what they call
'after-birth abortion', or infanticide. Here I suggest that they actually employ a confusion of …

Spontaneous abortion is rarely addressed in moral evaluations of abortion.
Indeed,'abortion'is virtually always taken to mean only induced abortion. After a brief review …

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 …