Abortion is a highly contested issue within the moral world, in part due to the inability to
universally define an embryo or fetus, and the critical question of when life or personhood …

the discussion is to avoid the word person. The ontologi cal reality of what is being aborted
profoundly affects the moral evaluation of the act of abortion. The only reasons to resist …

When one thinks about the ethics of abortion, one inevitably thinks about rights, since it is in
terms of the concept of rights that much of the debate has been conducted. This is true of …

Invariably, when philosophers wish to challenge the notion that human beings in the womb
have a right to life or need to be protected from harm, they invoke a distinction between …

Despite the apparently irreconcilable conflict between 'pro-life'and 'pro-choice'activists in the
abortion debate, many feminists and Catholic theologians agree that questions of …

Inspired by Patrick Lee's “A Christian Philosopher's View of Recent Directions in the
Abortion Debate,” this essay raises the question of how effective philosophical arguments …

Abortion continues to be one of the most difficult moral problems of the day for ethicists,
particularly Christian ethicists. 1 The moral debate concerns the questions of whether …

Abortion first became politicised during the nineteenth century following advances in
medicine which gave hospitals and doctors a more prominent role in regulating birth …

Non-Christians and even Christians can take opposite positions on abortion even when they
think rationally, honestly, and with good will. The continuing controversy over abortion …

Much attention in the last decade has focused on the revival of Aristotelian motifs in
contemporary practical philosophy. In particular, this interest has fostered the development …