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 …

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 …

The topic of abortion is, in our culture, a troubling one. It excites strong passions, which have
provided the impetus for political movements. This is undoubtedly the case in great …

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 …