Because a newborn baby does not have sufficiently complex psychological capacities to
have a concept of continuation of (its) life, according to Tooley, it cannot desire continuation …

The decision to edit a journal issue on newborns and to ask the question,''Are newborns
morally different than other children?''came from two personal experiences. My colleague …

Abstract In “Creation Ethics: The Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion,”
Elizabeth Harman has offered a novel approach to settling the question of the moral status of …

In a recent article titled 'After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?', Alberto Giubilini
and Francesca Minerva argue that it may be morally permissible to kill a newborn baby …

In an earlier article, we discussed the difficult issue of balancing maternal andfetal interests
in obstetric decision-making (1). We gave special attention to fetuses weighing more than …

There is a problem with the claim by Chervenak and McCullough (2011) that the relationship
between physician and fetal patient creates a “dependent moral status” for the fetus. An …

(Conclusion 2) Therefore, the commonly held view is inconsistent. This is a valid argument.
The authors claim that the inconsistency they expose in conclusion 2 could be resolved in …

Fetuses and infants are said to warrant protecting because of their potential. But valuing
potential supposedly leads to absurdities like protecting cells that could be technologically …

In 'Dilemma for Appeals to the Moral Significance of Birth', we argued that a dilemma is
faced by those who believe that birth is the event at which infanticide is ruled out. Those who …

In my essay, Why abortion is immoral, I criticised discussions of the morality of abortion in
which the crucial issue is whether fetuses are human beings or whether fetuses are persons …