This essay seeks to formulate a structure by which people might more profitably discuss
abortion. This structure is tied to a conception of both personal worldview and a practical …

Abortion considerations require deep reflection on law, convention, social mores, religious
norms, family contexts, emotions, and relationships. I have three arguments. First, a liberal …

For the last 40 years, the abortion debate, as currently framed, has raised huge sums of
money for nonprofits and political organizations, especially those on the right. It has also …

Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law
of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law …

Says one critic of the philosophical debate on abortion:" Philosophers are not listened to
because they do not listen." 1 Though I believe the charge is too strong, my own review of …

Conservative opponents of abortion hold that from the moment of conception, developing
fetuses have (or may have) full humanity or personhood that gives them a moral standing …

Educated American opinion today accords an acceptance to abortion which even a decade
ago it did not enjoy. Estimates of its actual practice in America vary enormously; the highest …

Opponents of abortion often defend their position by claiming that the fetus is a person. What
they mean, presumably, is that the fetus shares those attributes, whatever they may be, the …

Moral Case for Abortion is an attempt to rehabilitate abortion, as an idea and a practice, from
the ethical, philosophical gutter. It is, in the author's words, an “assault on the moral high …