In this chapter, I introduce and defend the plausibility of the uncertainty argument against
abortion—both generally and with regard to legislating based on moral risk considerations …

The abortion debate appears at times like a quagmire of rhetoric and argumentation in
which the neophyte and serious student alike long for solid ground. One line of reasoning …

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 …

While the outcome of abortion cases seems to depend exclusively on the undue-burden
standard, we have mostly missed the linchpin of recent decisions: conclusions about who …

Napier surveys a variety of ways in which our doxastic faculties can get things wrong.
Importantly, he does not conclude that our beliefs are unjustified, but rather that we have …

It is natural for those with permissive attitudes toward abortion to suppose that, if they have
examined all of the arguments they know against abortion and have concluded that they fail …

I begin this chapter by describing the value at stake when abortion laws are made more
restrictive: the reproductive freedom of women. Therefore, it is morally risky not only to permit …

According to the sufficiency principle, distributive justice requires that everyone have some
sufficient level of resources or well-being, but inequalities above this threshold have no …

We are often uncertain how to behave morally in complex situations. In this controversial
study, Ted Lockhart contends that moral philosophy has failed to address how we make …

Thomas Nagel has said that the morality of abortion poses the most intractable of all moral
problems. 2 And it is hard to disagree with him. Nevertheless, it is possible to be confident …