BACKGROUND Prenatal diagnosis based on different technologies is increasingly used in
developed countries and has become a common strategy in obstetric practice. The tests are …

Opinions on abortion are more polarized than opinions on most other moral issues. Why are
some people pro-choice and some pro-life? Religious and political preferences play a role …

Women's Lives integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the
psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethnicity, social class, nationality …

Pregnancy and birth can be approached from many philosophical angles, including
philosophy of law, philosophy of biology, and mereology. Some authors have focused on …

A key question has been underexplored in the literature on conscientious objection: if a
physician is required to perform 'medical activities,'what is a medical activity? This paper …

Is the “act itself” of separating a pregnant woman and her previable child neither good nor
bad morally, considered in the abstract? Recently, Maureen Condic and Donna Harrison …

In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal
abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the …

It is often argued that certain metaphysical complications surrounding the phenomenon of
monozygotic twinning force us to conclude that, prior to the point at which twinning is no …

The term “value of life” can refer to life's intrinsic dignity: something nonincremental and time-
unaffected in contrast to the fluctuating, incremental “value” of our lives, as they are longer or …

Medical and/or social gender transition need not involve denial of one's biological sex, but
raises other taxing ethical issues. These range from sexual ethics issues narrowly …