Is it ever morally right to procure an abortion, to help procure one, or to perform one? Patrick
Lee surveys the main philosophical arguments in favor of the moral permissibility of abortion …

In the familiar polemics on the subject of abortion one side argues in support of women's
rights, the other in support of babies' rights. But so far only one side of the debate has …

Abortion is the termination of pregnancy either spontaneously or intentionally before fetus
develops sufficiently to survive outside its mother's womb. Not all zygotes, which are the …

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967
when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral …

Most philosophers who discuss abortion seem to presuppose that during any period of time
in which a human fetus is not yet a human being abortion remains a matter of negligible …

A substantial proportion of human embryos spontaneously abort soon after conception, and
ethicists have argued this is problematic for the pro-life view that a human embryo has the …

In this paper a distinguished Anglican theologian argues that the claim to absolute
protection for the human embryo'from the beginning'is a novelty in the Western Christian and …

Abortion may be defined as the loss of a pregnancy before the fetus or fetuses are
potentially capable of life independent of the mother. In most mammals this period extends …