Singer suggests that the argument of abortion has missed the point. He asserts that the
debate should focus on if it is wrong to kill an innocent human being instead of arguing …

Ethical discussions about abortion, typically, focus on whether or not it is morally permissible
to destroy a fetus. If it is morally impermissible to do so, that seems to answer the question of …

In this chapter, the author describes several perspectives other than mine on the ethics of
the abortion of a human pregnancy. He explains how each perspective seems initially …

The purpose of this essay is to compare the substantial identity argument for the wrongness
of abortion to the future of value argument for its wrongness. Both arguments take for …

In the fall of 1971, Philosophy & Public Affairs published an essay by feminist moral
philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson that would have the entire nation talking. Her piece soon …

Concerning abortion and infanticide, ethics has always seen to each one as quite puzzling
an issue. The dilemma expectedly goes like this:“Are they morally good, permissible or …

What can contemporary virtue ethics say about the problem of abortion? In what follows I
attempt to answer that question by considering both what has been said and what we may …

This chapter will expound and critique Rosalind Hursthouse's famous article “Abortion and
Virtue Theory.” The discussion will proceed as follows: In II will describe how Hursthouse …

Also, this essay will neglect issues of great importance to a complete ethics of abortion.
Some anti‐-abortionists will allow that certain abortions, such as abortion before …

Inspired by Patrick Lee's “A Christian Philosopher's View of Recent Directions in the
Abortion Debate,” this essay raises the question of how effective philosophical arguments …