Most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being, a person,
from the moment of conception. The premise is argued for, but, as I think, not well. Take, for …

Abortion as an ethical issue involves the sense in which the fetus is a person to whom one
has obligations. Beyond that, abortion involves other issues of various degrees of severity …

I want to understand an argument. By an argument I do not mean a concatenation of
deathless propositions, but something with two sides that you have with someone, not …

SIDNEY CALLAHAN AND DANIEL CALLAHAN This book, like many other things to do with
abortion, is a product of long controversy. Though carried out with cooperation, it was …

I you want to justify abortion. And suppose you are willing to grant that the fetus is a human
person from the moment of conception. You have set for yourself no easy task. Most …

The persistent theme throughout the abortion decisions is the characterization of abortion as
a medical procedure. 9 Central to this theme is the constitutional protection afforded a …

Abortion/Richard Selzer--The bad old days/Ellen Messer & Kathryn E. May--The abortion
orphans/Anna Quindlen--Roe v. Wade--Webster v. Reproduction Health Services--Planned …

As little as a decade ago most moral philosophers still believed that the exercise of their craft
did not include defending positions on actual moral problems. More recently they have come …