I argue that it is possible for prospective mothers to wrong prospective fathers by bearing
their child; and that lifting paternal liability for child support does not correct the wrong …

Both many critics of abortion and many defenders of abortion have suggested that artificial
wombs could end the abortion debate. If the fetus is removed from the uterus, women have …

Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards
human embryo research—a battleground of extremes, a war between science and ethics …

In this article I investigate the ways in which phenomenology could guide our views on the
rights and/or wrongs of abortion. To my knowledge very few phenomenologists have …

This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967
when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral …

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 a recent paper, Giubilini and Minerva argue for the moral permissibility of what they call
'after-birth abortion', or infanticide. Here I suggest that they actually employ a confusion of …

In a recent article titled 'After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?', Alberto Giubilini
and Francesca Minerva argue that it may be morally permissible to kill a newborn baby …

If there is any contemporary debate that is intractable, the debate about abortion is. The
intractability arises particularly on account of those who oppose all abortions and those who …

Disputes in Bioethics tackles some of the most debated questions in contemporary
scholarship about the beginning and end of life. This collection of essays takes up questions …