The usual form which the public debate over abortion takes is one in which the “rights” of the
pregnant woman and of the embryo/fetus/“unborn child” are pitted against each other. That …

Philosophical and popular thinking about abortion is influenced by the belief that the
fundamental issue in settling the morality of abortion is whether a fetus is a person (is a …

Is it wrong for a woman to have an abortion or for society at large to allow abortions?
Conversely, does a woman have a moral right to terminate her pregnancy? Fundamental …

/^\NE of our most fundamental moral intuitions^^ is that, except in the most extreme circum?
stances, it is wrong to take a human life. This in? tuition is, however, not very precise …

We will be concerned with both the moral status of abortion, which for our purposes we may
define as the act which a woman performs in voluntarily terminating, or allowing another …

The purpose of this essay is to set out an argument for the claim that abortion, except
perhaps in rare instances, is seriously wrong. 1 One reason for these exceptions is to …

abortion is the way in which they rapidly turn into a discussion of the status of the foetus and
of whether destroying the foetus constitutes the taking of a human life. Since these latter …

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 …

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 …

Most philosophical discussions of abortion have addressed such issues as the personhood
of the fetus, the omission-commission distinction, and the rights of women to control their …