A threat to women is obscured when we treat “abortion-as-evacuation” as equivalent to
“abortion-as-killing.” This holds only if evacuating a fetus kills it. As technology advances, the …

Ann E. Cudd is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at
Boston University. Her books include Capitalism For and Against: A Feminist Debate (2011) …

I have two biological children. I also do not have at least two biological children. That is to
say, in addition to the numberless children that I do not plan to, yet might still bear in my …

My stomach tightens at the thought of getting involved in a controversy over abortion, even
with myself. Emotionally, theologically, as a Jew, and most of all as a mother who is daily …

Consider the odd fact? later I will try to show how very odd it is? that the only popular views
about the morality of abortion are also the most ex treme. Philosophical views are no …

The article presents the author's insights on the argument of Judith Jarvis Thomson in her
article" A Defense of Abortion," which is the most influential philosophical paper on abortion …

In her often-reprinted article “A Defense of Abortion,” Judith Jarvis Thomson uses a series of
analogies to defend her conclusion, the most famous of which is the familiar violinist …

I explore two thought-experiments in Judith Jarvis Thomson's important article,“A Defense of
Abortion”: the violinist example and the people-seeds example. I argue (contra Thomson) …

Abortions, like appendectomies and divorce, are undesirable and, in a better world, would
not be needed. An unexceptionable statement which may save one from the accusation of …