This paper is concerned with one of the questions that underlies ethical discussion of issues
such as abortion, euthanasia. capit? l punishment, nuclear deterrence, and other acts or …

In this paper, I will assume that abortion is a moral problem. If the assump-tion is a
reasonable one, then it would seem that understanding of the various divergent positions …

" 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 …

York: Macmillan, 1970. Pp. xv+ 524. $14.95. Daniel Callahan has wrought so rich a union of
intensive research and moral sensitivity as to make most arguments about abortion sound …

Suppose we wish to understand a particular moral problem–for example, abortion. One way
of proceeding is to reason on the basis of our existing substantive moral beliefs. We may …

It is common for fetal" viability" to be dismissed out of hand as a morally arbitrary or problem-
ridden criterion for fetal" personhood." In this essay I want to examine and reject one …

The purpose of this essay is to compare the substantial identity argument for the wrongness
of abortion to the future of value argument for its wrongness. Both arguments take for …

One of the most frustrating aspects of discussions about abortion is the way in which they
rapidly turn into a discussion of the status of the foetus and of whether destroying the foetus …

In the preceding article, John Finnis makes a great many adverse remarks about my article
on abortion.'I cannot take them all up: there are too many. I shall instead concentrate on …