The impairment argument against abortion

P Hendricks - Agency, pregnancy and persons, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Strengthened impairment argument does not restate Marquis

BP Blackshaw - Journal of medical ethics, 2021 - jme.bmj.com
With Perry Hendricks, I recently outlined a strengthened version of the impairment argument
(SIA) for the immorality of abortion. Alex Gillham has argued that our use of Don Marquis' …

The SIA Can't Just Go with the FLO

J Slater - HEC Forum, 2023 - Springer
Hendricks (2018) has defended an argument that abortion is (usually) immoral, which he
calls the impairment argument. This argument purports to apply regardless of the moral …

Killing and impairing fetuses

P Singh - The New Bioethics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Could it be that if a fetus is not a person abortion is still immoral? One affirmative answer
comes in the form of 'The Impairment Argument', which utilizes 'The Impairment Principle'to …