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 …

This dissertation considers how we should treat human beings whose moral status is
controversial, such as human embryos, fetuses, and the irreversibly comatose. My approach …

I show that the common reading of Thomson, that she argues by analogy for the conclusion
that abortion is permissible, is mistaken. The correct reading of Thomson is that she argues …

Don Marquis has argued that abortion is seriously wrong for the same reason that killing an
adult human being is wrong: it deprives a being of a" future like ours"(FLO), that is, a future of …

Procreative Ethics addresses questions at the beginning of life from a point of view that is
alternatively philosophical and christian. The author seeks to defend philosophically some …

Life is a sacred gift, an indivisible good with an inherent dignity and value. Despite its
uniqueness, fragility, vulnerability, and limitations, it remains the most interesting, attractive …

The abortion controversy is tearing our society apart. Some people are pro-choice, others
are pro-life, and never the twain, seemingly, will meet, let alone calmly discuss this issue …

Don Marquis argues that his “future of value” account of the ethics of killing affords us a
persuasive argument against abortion that avoids difficult questions about the moral status …

Adherents of any religion with a robust view of the afterlife presumably hold that their religion
marks out the best way to live in community, since in what they regard as heaven it will be …