Brain death has been accepted worldwide medically and legally as the biological state of
death of the organism. Nevertheless, the literature has described persistent problems with …

It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer
gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they …

The recent Canadian forum's recommendations regarding" neurological determination of
death" claim to have determined a" Canadian definition, criteria, and minimum testing …

Court decision Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (Dobbs), a colleague
commented,“I am not in favor of abortion, but I don't want to see women in back-street, illegal …

There is a significant debate over the moral status of human embryos. This debate has
important implications for practices like abortion and IVF. Some argue that embryos have the …

None the less, I believe we have a good reason to conceive a baby, other things being
equal, in the same way as we have a good reason to paint a great painting (even though …

Don Marquis has put forward a non-religious argument against abortion based on what he
claims is a morally relevant similarity between killing adult human beings and killing fetuses …

A Muslim woman in her sixteenth week of pregnancy was informed that her ultrasound scan
showed spina bifida, and laboratory results confirmed the diagnosis. The child would have …

In this issue of the journal Mark Brown has offered a new argument against my potential
future of value theory. I argue that even though the premises of this new argument are far …

It is claimed by the future like ours anti-abortion argument that since killing adult humans is
wrong because it deprives them of a future of value and the fetus has a future of value, killing …