A central claim in abortion ethics is what might be called the Harm Claim–the claim that
abortion harms the fetus. In this article, we put forward a simple and straightforward reason …

Don Marquis's “future-like-ours” argument against the moral permissibility of abortion is
widely considered the strongest anti-abortion argument in the philosophical literature. In this …

Marquis' future-like-ours argument against the morality of abortion assumes animalism—a
family of theories according to which we are animals. Such an assumption is theoretically …

One of the most interesting and influential arguments against the moral permissibility of
abortion is the one offered by Don Marquis (1989, 1997, 2002, 2013). The basic idea is …

Don Marquis argues that abortion is prima facie seriously wrong because it deprives the
foetus of a valuable future. This paper argues that there is no morally relevant difference …

Recently, a number of philosophers have argued that, despite appearances, the success of
Don Marquis's well-known future-like-ours argument against abortion does not turn, in an …

Death can be terrible for the survivors of the deceased, but can it be bad for the deceased
themselves? Epicurus argued that it could not be, apparently because there is no temporal …

Earl Conee claims that Don Marquis' Principle MP (" The prima facie wrong-making feature
ofa killing is the loss to the victim ofthe value ofits future") entails that contraception is …

According to the future ofvalue argument for the immorality ofabortion, the best explanation
for the wrongness ofkilling adults and children on almost all occasions is that killing deprives …

Due to this stalemate, many Americans have given up on solving this issue and opted out of
the debate entirely. However, in the late 1980s, the philosopher Don Marquis entered the …