What determines when a being is human? When is it lawful to kill? These questions are
linked in any consideration of the morality of abortion. They are questions central to any …

Educated American opinion today accords an acceptance to abortion which even a decade
ago it did not enjoy. Estimates of its actual practice in America vary enormously; the highest …

I If philosophers are going to apply ethical theory successfully to practical issues, they must
first have a theory. This may seem obvious; but they often proceed as if it were not so. A …

interpretation of “desire,” so that a machine that searches for an electrical outlet in order to
get its batteries recharged is described as having a desire to be recharged, then it will not …

Most philosophers who discuss abortion seem to presuppose that during any period of time
in which a human fetus is not yet a human being abortion remains a matter of negligible …

Abortion as an ethical issue involves the sense in which the fetus is a person to whom one
has obligations. Beyond that, abortion involves other issues of various degrees of severity …

The idea of reviewing the ethical concerns of ancient medicine with an eye as to how they
might instruct us about the extremely lively disputes of our own contemporary medicine is …

Most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being, a person,
from the moment of conception. The premise is argued for, but, as I think, not well. Take, for …

Is it ever morally right to procure an abortion, to help procure one, or to perform one? Patrick
Lee surveys the main philosophical arguments in favor of the moral permissibility of abortion …

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 …