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

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 …

The purpose of this essay is to set out an argument for the claim that abortion, except
perhaps in rare instances, is seriously wrong. 1 One reason for these exceptions is to …

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 …

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 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 …

The term" abortion" is conveniently used, for my present dis cussion, to refer to deliberate
removal (or deliberate action to cause the expulsion) of a fetus 1 from the womb of a human …

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 …

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 …

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 …