“Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues:(1)
persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it …

Opponents of abortion sometimes hold that it is impermissible because fetuses are persons
from the moment of conception. But miscarriage, which ends up to 89% of pregnancies, is …

Some opponents of abortion claim fetuses are persons from the moment of conception. Call
these “Personhood-At-Conception”(or PAC), opponents of abortion. Amy Berg (2017 …

In Moral Literacy, or How to Do the Right Thing, Colin McGinn proposes a consequentialist
solution to the abortion dilemma. McGinn interprets moral rights and moral interests as …

Dan Brock has asserted that those who claim that the early embryo has full moral status are
not consistent, and that the rationality of such a position is dubious when it is adopted from a …

This article confronts growing conservative opposition to abortion based on the claim that
abortion is morally equivalent to infanticide. By examining the relationship between moral …

There seems little doubt that if something has the potential to be valuable then there is good
prima facie reason to value it. One values the unimpressive brown objects that one plants in …

None the less, I believe we have a good reason to conceive a baby, other things being
equal, in the same way as we have a good reason to paint a great painting (even though …

In 2008, many states sought to pass Human Life Amendments, which would extend the
definition of personhood to encompass newly fertilized eggs. If such an amendment were to …

The potential benefits of an alternative to physical gestation are numerous. These include
providing reproductive options for prospective parents who are unable to establish or …