WHY ABORTION IS IMMORAL Page 1 Abortion 367 strike many people as heartless and
immoral; but remember that the very existence of people who feel this way, and who are willing …

Opponents of abortion often defend their position by claiming that the fetus is a person. What
they mean, presumably, is that the fetus shares those attributes, whatever they may be, the …

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 …

focus attention upon the ontological status of the fetus and, specifically, to ask whether or not
the fetus is a person. Indeed, as Hare points out, the question of:.. whether the fetus is a …

The real effect of the abortion laws as they seem certain to appear in five years is not so
much the loss of the unborn. We may survive that with calluses on top of our psychic scars …

T7 hese days it is difficult to know how, or even whether, to raise the abortion question. For
some it is a dead issue because having said all that they can possibly say, both sides have …

3 The two chief proponents of this view are: Paul Ramsey," The Morality of Abortion," in Life
or Death: Ethics and Options (Seattle: 1968), and John T. Noonan Jr.," Abortion and the …

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 …

abortion is the way in which they rapidly turn into a discussion of the status of the foetus and
of whether destroying the foetus constitutes the taking of a human life. Since these latter …

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 …