Over the past three decades the abortion debate created many interesting and jnique
arguments. Yet it is difficuU to adjudicate among these, especiaUy if one vants to mount …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Voluntary Abortion involves the preventable destruction of an unformed or partly formed
human organism. It is disagreement about the moral significance of this fact which sustains …

The most iUlportant contribution which professional philosophers could make to the debate
concerning abortion would be to produce a detailed conceptual analysis of the sorts of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

T'he ongoing debate about the morality of abortion is important not only because of the
institution of abortion itself but because it suggests to the general public that rational …