The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of abortion more important
than ever. Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most …

None the less, I believe we have a good reason to conceive a baby, other things being
equal, in the same way as we have a good reason to paint a great painting (even though …

The Quest for Human Dignity in the Ethics of Pregnancy Termination describes and
analyzes the problem of termination of pregnancy, with special attention to its prevalence in …

Abstract The philosophers Peter Singer and Jeff McMahan hold variations of the view that
infant interests in continued life are suspect because infants lack the cognitive complexity to …

Abortion involves the intentional killing of a fetus to end a pregnancy. These fetuses are
human, biologically. 1 It seems that fetuses are beings, albeit completely dependent beings …

It is commonly assumed in discussions of abortion that the moral question and the policy
question coincide, that a legal prohibition of abortion is justified if and only if abortion is …

Distinguished by its readability and scope, Moral Reasons explains how to think critically
about issues in ethics and political philosophy. After a detailed overview of moral …

In dieser Dissertation beschäftigt die Verfasserin sich mit der Frage, mit welcher Ethik man
angemessen und sinnvoll auf die Themen der Bioethik eingehen könnte. Erstens macht sie …

This study describes and analyses the problem of termination of pregnancy, with special
attention to its prevalence in Kenya, where more than seven hundred abortions are …

Don Marquis's future-like-ours argument holds that killing you or me is wrong because it
deprives us of a future-like-ours, all that we would have enjoyed had we not been killed …