A substantial proportion of human embryos spontaneously abort soon after conception, and
ethicists have argued this is problematic for the pro-life view that a human embryo has the …

It is often claimed that from the moment of conception embryos have the same moral status
as adult humans. This claim plays a central role in many arguments against abortion, in vitro …

Ord's (2008) position is that the view of equal moral status between embryos and adult
humans necessarily entails a reductio ad absurdum in the form of the Conclusion:“ …

Most opposition to induced abortion turns on the belief that human fetuses are persons from
conception. On this view, the moral status of the fetus alone requires those in a position to …

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 …

Several recent papers have suggested that the pro-life view entails a radical, implausible
thesis: that miscarriage is the biggest public health crisis in the history of our species and …

The contemporary philosophical literature on abortion primarily revolves around three
seemingly intractable debates, concerning the (1) moral status of the fetus,(2) scope of …

Many people believe human fetuses have the same moral status as adult human persons,
that it is wrong to allow harm to befall things with this moral status, and thus voluntary …

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 …

Changing ingrained ways of thinking about the moral status of members of our species is
often a difficult business—in no small part because of often counterintuitive social …