Suppose you and I are “human beings” in the sense of human animals, members of the
genus Homo. Given this supposition, this article argues first and foremost that (it's at least …

Abortion is the issue that first brought evangelical Christians and other cultural conservatives
into the arena of bioethics. Although today bioethics is dominated by other issues that are …

The purpose of this essay is to set out an argument for the claim that abortion, except
perhaps in rare instances, is seriously wrong. 1 One reason for these exceptions is to …

Abortion continues to be one of the most difficult moral problems of the day for ethicists,
particularly Christian ethicists. 1 The moral debate concerns the questions of whether …

Most philosophers who discuss abortion seem to presuppose that during any period of time
in which a human fetus is not yet a human being abortion remains a matter of negligible …

In the abortion debate, one of the more overworked arguments concerns the if and when of
the humanity of a fetus. For those who argue along these lines, the answer to these …

Some opponents of abortion claim fetuses are persons from the moment of conception. Call
these “Personhood-At-Conception”(or PAC), opponents of abortion. Amy Berg (2017 …

It is commonly held that there can be no morally relevant difference between a fetus inside
the womb and about to be born and that same fetus just after it has been born. Birth, it is …

The philosophical literature would have us believe that the conservative view on abortion is
based on the claim that the fetus is a person from the time of conception. Given the …

Abortionist arguments take different forms. Three kinds of argument in particular are
common:(a) the (early) human foetus is not a human being; so (an early) abortion is not a …