Should editing the human genome be allowed? What are the ethical implications of social
restrictions during a pandemic? Is it ethical to use animals in clinical research? Is prioritizing …

In cases in which we must choose between either (i) preventing a woman from remaining
unwillingly pregnant or (ii) preventing a fetus from being killed, we should prevent the fetus …

Perry Hendricks' impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on two
premises: first, impairing a fetus with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is immoral, and second, if …

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 an article of this journal, Perry Hendricks makes a novel argument for the immorality of
abortion. According to his impairment argument, abortion is immoral because:(a) it is wrong …

In my article" Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The impairment
argument"(this journal), I defended what I called “The impairment argument” which purports …

In this chapter, I present the Impairment Argument, which purports to show that abortion is
immoral even if the fetus is not a person. What drives the argument is the fact that nonlethally …

The 'impairment argument'against abortion developed by Perry Hendricks aims to derive the
wrongness of abortion from the wrongness of causing foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) …

Blackshaw and Hendricks have recently developed and defended the impairment argument
against abortion, arguing that the immorality of giving a child fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) …

Perry Hendricks' original impairment argument for the immorality of abortion is based on the
impairment principle: if impairing an organism to some degree is immoral, then ceteris …