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 …

Medical practitioners tend to define abortion as premature termination of pregnancy, rather
than as premature termination of fetal life. This usage is consistent with their primary …

As little as a decade ago most moral philosophers still believed that the exercise of their craft
did not include defending positions on actual moral problems. More recently they have come …

3 The two chief proponents of this view are: Paul Ramsey," The Morality of Abortion," in Life
or Death: Ethics and Options (Seattle: 1968), and John T. Noonan Jr.," Abortion and the …

I want to understand an argument. By an argument I do not mean a concatenation of
deathless propositions, but something with two sides that you have with someone, not …

Also, this essay will neglect issues of great importance to a complete ethics of abortion.
Some anti‐-abortionists will allow that certain abortions, such as abortion before …

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 …

S ays one critic of the philosophical debate on abortion:" Philosophers are not listened to
because they do not listen."'Though I believe the charge is too strong, my own review of the …

My first point is a plea for greater sanity in the debate over abortion laws—a plea directed
against the credence currently given the contention that anyone who opposes any of the …

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 …