Andrew Johnson studied philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.
D., 2001), where he taught several courses in bioethics. He currently lives and works in …

Debates over the moral status of embryonic human life continue unabated. 1 In an article
devoted to exploring Martha Nussbaum's book Hiding from Humanity, John Haldane notices …

The embryo's moral status is a hotly debated question. Some authors give the embryo the
same status as that of an adult human being, while others consider it as more akin to things …

One would expect philosophy to attempt to determine what an embryo is, as well as say
something about what grounds respect for the embryo and the prescriptions that pertain to it …

William Hurlbut, a Stanford University bioethicist and member of the President's Council on
Bioethics, proposed a solution to the current impasse over human embryonic stem cell …

That abortion is the unjust killing of an innocent human person is the contention of the
authors of this book. It does not intend to be a comprehensive defence of a pro-life position; …

Norman Ford is famous for the argument in his 1988 book When Did I Begin?(Cam bridge:
Cambridge University Press) that an individual human organism does not begin its …

Unborn Child rights-based normative language. For instance, according to classical natural
law theory (as influenced by Aristotelian virtue ethics), a being's moral status is related to the …

Abortion remains one of the most hotly divisive moral issues in many countries of the world.
The debate proceeds with loaded language and hardened positions. Two large questions …

What is the moral status of animals? What's the moral status of fetuses? What's the moral
status of the permanently comatose? While questions like these are sometimes asked (also …