The author, who received his Ph. D. from Marquette University in Milwaukee, has served as
assistant professor, then associate professor at St. Thomas College from 1981 to the …

This essay deals with the question of the morality of abortion and infanticide. The
fundamental ethical objection traditionally advanced against these practices rests on the …

T7 hese days it is difficult to know how, or even whether, to raise the abortion question. For
some it is a dead issue because having said all that they can possibly say, both sides have …

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 …

ON THE MORAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF ABORTION Page 1 360 Abortion by the feeling that
abortion is a tragic necessity. No matter whether a consensus or compromise is reached on …

There has been considerable discussion of the moral status of early fetuses and the ethics of
the choice whether to abort a pregnancy. But one tenable view about the moral status of …

The moral problem of abortion seemed simple to describe, if not resolve. There was
consensus that at least some methods of birth control—avoiding or preventing the …

According to the future of value argument for the immorality of abortion, the best explanation
for the presumptive serious wrongness of killing innocent post-natal children and adults is …

In the abortion debate, one of the more overworked arguments concerns the if and when of
the humanity of a fetus. For those who argue along these lines, the answer to these …