Recently, debate over whether health care providers should have a protected right to
conscientiously refuse to offer legal health care services—such as abortion, elective …

The rapid development of artificial womb technologies means that we must consider if and
when it is permissible to kill the human subject of ectogestation—recently termed a …

Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to
bioethics from a “natural law” philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its …

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 …

There are some cases in which the government should coerce its citizens into providing care
to vulnerable persons. For example, suppose that a woman and her infant are snowed in a …

In this article, we discuss Beauchamp and Childress's treatment of the issue of moral status.
In particular, we (1) introduce the five different perspectives on moral status that Beauchamp …

The Law and Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life explains the
principle of the inviolability of human life and its continuing relevance to English law …

We argue against Thomson's view that abortion is permissible even if fetuses have high
moral status. Against this, we argue that, because many mothers are morally responsible for …

Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama's work,
Our Posthuman Future. Daryl J. Wennemann argues that the traditional concept of …