It is common for fetal" viability" to be dismissed out of hand as a morally arbitrary or problem-
ridden criterion for fetal" personhood." In this essay I want to examine and reject one …

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 …

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 …

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public
debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic …

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 …

During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public
debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic …

In the preceding article, John Finnis makes a great many adverse remarks about my article
on abortion.'I cannot take them all up: there are too many. I shall instead concentrate on …

nt/[ay a liberal state outlaw abortion in order to protect the\/1 lives of early-stage human
fetuses? May it do so without>> v relying on the controversial claim that early fetuses have …

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 …

/^\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 …