The labels" pro-life" and" pro-choice" are now widely used to designate the two major
opposing positions on abortion. As the term" pro-choice" suggests, it is less common than it …

Early and still popular strategies for deciding the moral acceptability (and, by implication, the
legal acceptability) of abortion divide sharply on the clash between the value of the fetus's …

Says one critic of the philosophical debate on abortion:" Philosophers are not listened to
because they do not listen." 1 Though I believe the charge is too strong, my own review of …

Defenses of abortion have by and large focussed upon one or the other of two topics: the
question of the personhood of the fetus, or the question of the woman's rights as weighed …

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 …

Opponents of abortion often defend their position by claiming that the fetus is a person. What
they mean, presumably, is that the fetus shares those attributes, whatever they may be, the …

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 …

In the abortion debate, one of the more overworked arguments concerns the if and when of
the humanity of a fetus. For those who argue along these lines, the answer to these …

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 …

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 …