Impairing the impairment argument

K van Oosterum, EJ Curran - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2024 - jme.bmj.com
Blackshaw and Hendricks have recently developed and defended the impairment argument
against abortion, arguing that the immorality of giving a child fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) …

Defending the impairment argument

BP Blackshaw - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2024 - jme.bmj.com
Kyle van Oosterum and Emma Curran have recently argued that the impairment argument
against abortion is weak and accomplishes little. They also claim that impairment fails to …

Strengthening the impairment argument against abortion

BP Blackshaw, P Hendricks - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks' impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on two
premises: first, impairing a fetus with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, and second, if …

Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The impairment argument

P Hendricks - Bioethics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Much of the debate about the ethics of abortion has centered on whether the fetus is a
person. In an attempt to sidestep this complex issue, I argue that, even if the fetus is not a …

Against the strengthened impairment argument: never-born fetuses have no FLO to deprive

AR Gillham - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
In order for the so-called strengthened impairment argument (SIA) to succeed, it must posit
some reason R that causing fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, one that also holds in …

Fine-tuning the impairment argument

BP Blackshaw, P Hendricks - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks' original impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on the
impairment principle: if impairing an organism to some degree is immoral, then ceteris …

The impairment argument for the immorality of abortion revisited

BP Blackshaw - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Perry Hendricks has recently presented the impairment argument for the immorality of
abortion, to which I responded and he has now replied. The argument is based on the …

Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing children in utero does not imply the wrongness of abortion

S Cushing - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2023 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks''impairment argument', which he has defended in this journal, is intended to
demonstrate that the generally conceded wrongness of giving a fetus fetal alcohol syndrome …

The impairment argument for the immorality of abortion: a reply

BP Blackshaw - Bioethics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Violinists, demandingness, and the impairment argument against abortion

D Crummett - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The 'impairment argument'against abortion developed by Perry Hendricks aims to derive the
wrongness of abortion from the wrongness of causing foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) …