Fortunately, none of the arguments for and against abortion need be expressed in terms of"
rights." As we shall see, Judith Thomson vir-tually admits as much in her" A Defense of …

Judith Jarvis Thomson, an American philosopher born in 1929, works in ethics and
philosophy of mind. Her article on abortion is one of the most widely reprinted essays of …

In her 1971 article," A Defense of Abortion," Judith Jarvis Thomson defended the following
thesis: the impermissibility of abortion does not follow from the premises that every fetus is a …

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 …

Philosophical and popular thinking about abortion is influenced by the belief that the
fundamental issue in settling the morality of abortion is whether a fetus is a person (is a …

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 …

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public
debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic …

TT sounds very close to truism of moral theory to^ say:" If you act in a way that harms no-one,
then that act is morally permissible unless there is some over-riding moral consideration …

In the preceding article, John Finnis makes a great many adverse remarks about my article
on abortion.'I cannot take them all up: there are too many. I shall instead concentrate on …

At the heart of the current debate over abortion is the question of what is at stake: for the
liberal feminist group it is the woman's autonomy over her own body; for the conservative/pro …