The SIA Can't Just Go with the FLO

J Slater - Hec Forum, 2024 - Springer
Hendricks (2018) has defended an argument that abortion is (usually) immoral, which he
calls the impairment argument. This argument purports to apply regardless of the moral …

(Regrettably) Abortion remains immoral: The impairment argument defended

PC Hendricks - 2019 - philpapers.org
In my article" Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The impairment
argument"(this journal), I defended what I called “The impairment argument” which purports …

Strengthened impairment argument: restating Marquis?

A Gillham - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Blackshaw and Hendricks recently developed a strengthened version of the impairment
argument (SIA) that imports Marquis' account of the wrongness of abortion. I then argued …

Fine-tuning the impairment argument

BP Blackshaw, P Hendricks - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks' original impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on the
impairment principle: if impairing an organism to some degree is immoral, then ceteris …

Three Problems with the Impairment Argument

W Simkulet - Asian Bioethics Review, 2023 - Springer
In his recent article “Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The Impairment
Argument,” Perry Hendricks sets out to sidestep thorny metaphysical questions regarding …

Against the impairment argument: a reply to Hendricks

J Räsänen - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In an article of this journal, Perry Hendricks makes a novel argument for the immorality of
abortion. According to his impairment argument, abortion is immoral because:(a) it is wrong …

[PDF][PDF] 12 Better (Philosophical) Arguments about Abortion

N Nobis, K Grob - View metadata, citation and similar papers at core. ac … - academia.edu
We argue that abortion should not be illegal because most abortions are not morally wrong
(and so they are not seriously or extremely wrong). So, states are making bad moral and …

Thinking about abortion

G Kuykendall - CrossCurrents, 1977 - JSTOR
One of the most remarkable social developments of the last thirty years has been the
revolution in attitudes and laws about abortion. Ten years ago abortions were illegal …

On the impairment argument

W Simkulet - Bioethics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most opposition to abortion stands or falls on whether a fetus is the sort of being whose life it
is seriously wrong to end. In her influential paper 'A defense of abortion,'Judith Jarvis …

Strengthening the impairment argument against abortion

BP Blackshaw, P Hendricks - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
Perry Hendricks' impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on two
premises: first, impairing a fetus with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, and second, if …