… This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967
when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral …

… of great benefit to women and their doctors. The British law, … for abortion at 12 weeks so
that abortion remains available to … these new issues and deciding their relevance to abortion …

… moral debate are already so entrenched that only a critical exposé will make clear how …
need a new moral approach. Most professional ethicists would insist that an optimal moral point …

… abortion in our churches today. We should not start our moral inquiry by arguing that abortion
… wrong or right; rather, the moral nature of each abortion can be understood as dependent …

… Although we all have a general idea of what abortion is, how might one define it? One …
primarily on the ethics of abortion, it is not without implications for the legality of abortion. In some …

… that a more inclusive ethics of abortion is required rather than a new ethics of abortion when
“… Perhaps it is not so much a new ethics of abortion that is required, as a more inclusive one. …

… happens in an abortion: “Why should abortion raise any moral issue at all. … Why is abortion
then not like a tonsillectomy? Why should a woman feel any regret after an abortion? Why …

… Such discourse is essential, I believe, to moral resolution of the questions surrounding
abortion. I note with both sadness and concern that Colker has expressed certain opinions about …

… If we look at abortion as if it is a problem that will put us … abortion-as-a-moral-issue can be
productively approached not by trying to settle the moral issue but by conceiving that the fact it …

… I will use this new moral paradigm to explore what is at stake in the abortion controversy from
… If it is true, as we think it generally is, that abortion is never a happily chosen option for birth …