My first point is a plea for greater sanity in the debate over abortion laws—a plea directed
against the credence currently given the contention that anyone who opposes any of the …

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 …

interpretation of “desire,” so that a machine that searches for an electrical outlet in order to
get its batteries recharged is described as having a desire to be recharged, then it will not …

In his recent article Perry Hendricks presents what he calls the impairment argument to show
that abortion is immoral. To do so, he argues that to give a fetus fetal alcohol syndrome is …

This book is uneven and inconsistent, passionate or radical on some issues, conservative
on others, with a fair mixture of the noncommittal. Some people have told us that it is …

In my article" Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The impairment
argument"(this journal), I defended what I called “The impairment argument” which purports …

Abortion as an ethical issue involves the sense in which the fetus is a person to whom one
has obligations. Beyond that, abortion involves other issues of various degrees of severity …

The status of abortion as murder, and therefore amenable to governmental intervention and
criminalization, has been asserted by those favoring limits on abortion. Opponents claim a …

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 …

I AM EXTREMELY GRATEFUL to Wisniewski (2010) for his critique of my published views
on the ethics of abortion. One of the worst fates for one's intellectual children (one's …