The rapid development of artificial womb technologies means that we must consider if and
when it is permissible to kill the human subject of ectogestation—recently termed a …

Perry Hendricks' impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on two
premises: first, impairing a fetus with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, and second, if …

In this chapter, I present the Impairment Argument, which purports to show that abortion is
immoral even if the fetus is not a person. What drives the argument is the fact that nonlethally …

In order for the so-called strengthened impairment argument (SIA) to succeed, it must posit
some reason R that causing fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, one that also holds in …

In his important paper “Just Better Utilitarianism,” Matti Häyry reminds his readers that liberal
utilitarianism can offer a basis for moral and political choices in bioethics and thus could be …

In response to criticism of the impairment argument for the immorality of abortion, Bruce
Blackshaw and Perry Hendricks appeal to Don Marquis's future-like-ours (FLO) account of …

Perry Hendricks' original 'impairment argument'against abortion relied on 'the impairment
principle'(TIP):'if it is immoral to impair an organism O to the nth degree, then, ceteris …

RESUMEN Propósito/Contexto. La interrupción del embarazo es uno de los grandes
capítulos de la Bioética y el cine permite estudiarlo a partir de historias singulares. En el …

The impairment argument claims that abortion is immoral, because it results in a greater
impairment to a fetus than other actions that are clearly immoral, such as inflicting fetal …

Abstract Hendricks' The Impairment Argument (TIA) claims that it is immoral to impair a fetus
by causing it to have fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Since aborting a fetus impairs it to a …