Spontaneous abortion is rarely addressed in moral evaluations of abortion.
Indeed,'abortion'is virtually always taken to mean only induced abortion. After a brief review …

Many people believe human fetuses have the same moral status as adult human persons,
that it is wrong to allow harm to befall things with this moral status, and thus voluntary …

In a recent article, William Simkulet has argued against the anti-abortion view by invoking
the fact that many human fetuses die from spontaneous abortion. He argues that this fact …

Also, this essay will neglect issues of great importance to a complete ethics of abortion.
Some anti‐-abortionists will allow that certain abortions, such as abortion before …

What role does birth play in the debate about elective abortion? Does the wrongness of
infanticide imply the wrongness of late-term abortion? In this paper, I argue that the same or …

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 …

The term “abortion” is used in this discussion to refer to deliberate removal (or deliberate
action to cause the expulsion) of a fetus 2 from the womb of a human female, at the request …

Medical practitioners tend to define abortion as premature termination of pregnancy, rather
than as premature termination of fetal life. This usage is consistent with their primary …

Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide
ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in …

S ays one critic of the philosophical debate on abortion:" Philosophers are not listened to
because they do not listen."'Though I believe the charge is too strong, my own review of the …