interpretation of “desire,” so that a machine that searches for an electrical outlet in order to
get its batteries recharged is described as having a desire to be recharged, then it will not …

The existing hundreds of thousands of unused frozen embryos, coupled with the
skyrocketing rate of divorce, raise numerous moral, legal, social, and religious dilemmas …

One of the most famous, and most derided, arguments against the morality of abortion is the
argument from potential, which maintains that the fetus' potential to become a person and …

As little as a decade ago most moral philosophers still believed that the exercise of their craft
did not include defending positions on actual moral problems. More recently they have come …

On November 20, 1968, the Washington Post carried a storyunder the heading," Man Pleads
Guilty in Abortion Death." A 25-yearold hospital orderly performed an abortion upon a …

The real effect of the abortion laws as they seem certain to appear in five years is not so
much the loss of the unborn. We may survive that with calluses on top of our psychic scars …

It is sometimes assumed that in order to establish that compensation should be paid to
children who are born malformed as a result of injuries done negligently to the foetus it is …

We see here the common features of one type of slippery slope argument. The first step may
not be so bad, but we move by degrees to the real danger. I am not especially concerned …

Background One of the most famous, and concurrently one of the most derided, arguments
against the morality of abortion is the argument from fetal potential. This argument maintains …