Recently, Henrik Friberg-Fernros replied (2019) to my paper 'The Ethics of Killing:
Strengthening the Substance View with Time-relative Interests'(Blackshaw 2019) to clarify …

In 'The Ethics of Killing: Strengthening the Substance View with Time-relative Interests'
Bruce P Blackshaw reports that I, in a previous article, conclude 'that a prison sentence of a …

Most serious contemporary opposition to abortion is grounded on the belief that human
fetuses are members of the same moral category as beings like us, and that the loss of any …

I agree with Bertha Manninen in her admirably clear argument (2010) that we should rethink
Roe v. Wade, though I would have us do so for different reasons. Before beginning, I want to …

Proponents of the substance view contend that abortion is seriously morally wrong because
it is killing something with the same inherent value and right to life as you or I. Rob Lovering …

CONCLUSION We have said regrettably little about Manninen's specific claims. We have
only highlighted some general challenges for making moral arguments by analogy. Similar …

After reading Caulfield and Bubela's (2007) account of the Canadian ban on somatic cell
nuclear transfer (SCNT), one gets the impression that all research to derive human …

Michael Keane (2008) raises a valid and important concern. Between the debates about
whether anyone can ever deserve to die for their crimes (no matter how heinous) and …

The most famous recent article about abortion is Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva's
“After‐-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?”(2013; see also Chapter 31 in this …

Is there a moral right to abortion? If so, do abortions nonetheless violate morally significant
obligations? Bertha Manninen (2010) approaches the first question by examining whether a …