Such dialectics mark the two issues central in the abortion debate now on appeal before the
Supreme Court and before the entire nation. One view sees the unborn child possessing …

" Babies," remarked Mrs. Jill Knight, a Conservative Protestant Member of Parliament during
a debate in the House of Commons in 1966," are not like bad teeth to be jerked out just …

Early and still popular strategies for deciding the moral acceptability (and, by implication, the
legal acceptability) of abortion divide sharply on the clash between the value of the fetus's …

Philosophical and popular thinking about abortion is influenced by the belief that the
fundamental issue in settling the morality of abortion is whether a fetus is a person (is a …

The abortion controversy represents a collision between two irreconcilable conceptions of
human nature and ultimate reality. As the conflict grows, lawyers will be called on to take …

Despite the Supreme Court decision in 1973, Roe v. Wade, making abortion legally
available without impedi ment during the first two trimesters of pregnancy, neither the legal …

I shall attempt to defend the following moderate view on the question of abortion. At some
nonarbitrary point be tween conception and birth it is morally permissible to destroy a …

Philosophers sometimes think that philosophical ethics can be utilized in solving practical
queries such as the abortion issue. They are most probably right, in principle. But they often …

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public
debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic …

My first point is a plea for greater sanity in the debate over abortion laws—a plea directed
against the credence currently given the contention that anyone who opposes any of the …