" This book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of killing in cases in which the
metaphysical or moral status of the individual killed is uncertain or controversial. Among the …

The central thesis of philosopher David Boonin is that the moral case against abortion can
be shown to be unsuccessful on terms that critics of abortion can and do accept. Critically …

My primary aim is to call into question an influential notion of paternal responsibility, namely,
that fathers owe support to their children due to their causal responsibility for their existence …

We argue against Thomson's view that abortion is permissible even if fetuses have high
moral status. Against this, we argue that, because many mothers are morally responsible for …

This article is a critical review of David Boonin's book, A Defense of Abortion (Cambridge
University Press, 2002), a significant contribution to the literature on this subject and …

In her 1971 article," A Defense of Abortion," Judith Jarvis Thomson defended the following
thesis: the impermissibility of abortion does not follow from the premises that every fetus is a …

This extraordinarily original book is an exploration of ethical issues at the beginning of life—
abortion in particular, through the phenomenology of how 'the newone', as the author terms …

This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing
children into being. Prusak argues that parents, as procreators, have obligations regarding …

It is commonly believed that parents have special duties toward their children—weightier
duties than they owe other children. How these duties are acquired, however, is not well …

When a woman or girl finds herself pregnant, is it morally permissible for her to end that
pregnancy? One dominant tradition says “no”; its close cousin says “rarely”-exceptions may …