James Q, Wilson Page 1 Commentary On Abortion James Q, Wilson tok II ON is a moral
question. Most A people, regardless of how they feel the question should be answered or who …

The aim of this essay is to show that there are no easy options for those who are disturbed
by the suggestion that infanticide may on occasion be morally permissible. The belief that …

The term “abortion” is used in this discussion to refer to deliberate removal (or deliberate
action to cause the expulsion) of a fetus 2 from the womb of a human female, at the request …

PIP: This essay offers a moderate view of abortion that imposes a time limit for unrestricted
abortion and specific indications for later abortions. The introduction notes that the …

The papers included in this supplement were first given at a meeting, The New Ethics of
Abortion, organised by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) in Senate House at …

Hendricks set out to construct an antiabortion version of Jeff McMahan's Embryo Rescue
case in which you have two choices—(1) save a woman from an unwilling pregnancy or (2) …

Medical practitioners tend to define abortion as premature termination of pregnancy, rather
than as premature termination of fetal life. This usage is consistent with their primary …

Recent controversy over philosophical advocacy of infanticide (or the comically-styled
euphemism 'postnatal abortion') reveals a surprisingly common premise uniting many of the …

Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide
ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in …

Analogies are the stuff out of which normative moral philosophy is made. Certainly one of
the most famous analogies constructed by a philosopher in order to argue for a specific …