There are two main strands within the philosophical literature on abortion. The first strand
deals primarily with the concept of a person. It seeks to understand the concept and to …

I shall attempt to defend the following moderate view on the question of abortion. At some
nonarbitrary point be tween conception and birth it is morally permissible to destroy a …

The central issue in the abortion debate is the moral status of the conceptus. There are two
positions that argue this issue. At one extreme are the views of the pro-life group which …

Early and still popular strategies for deciding the moral acceptability (and, by implication, the
legal acceptability) of abortion divide sharply on the clash between the value of the fetus's …

The abortion debate rages on. Yet the two most popular positions seem to be clearly
mistaken. Conservatives maintain that a human life begins at conception and that therefore …

DISPUTES OVER the morality of abortion typically turn on the status of the entity to be
aborted. If one is convinced by what I shall call the genetic argument, that human life begins …

The labels" pro-life" and" pro-choice" are now widely used to designate the two major
opposing positions on abortion. As the term" pro-choice" suggests, it is less common than it …

We used to think that resolving the personhood issue was decisive. Judith Thomson's
landmark article seems to demonstrate the inadequacy of this approach. 1 Even if we …

Opponents of abortion often defend their position by claiming that the fetus is a person. What
they mean, presumably, is that the fetus shares those attributes, whatever they may be, the …

What I shall call the Moderate view about the morality of abortion is the view that abortion is
often (though not necessarily always') morally defensible (even) in circumstances in which …