The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of abortion more important
than ever. Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most …

In this paper, I suggest that, if we are committed to accepting a threshold approach to
personhood, according to which all beings above the threshold are persons with equal …

The contemporary philosophical literature on abortion primarily revolves around three
seemingly intractable debates, concerning the (1) moral status of the fetus,(2) scope of …

Most opposition to induced abortion turns on the belief that human fetuses are persons from
conception. On this view, the moral status of the fetus alone requires those in a position to …

Uncertain Bioethics makes a significant and distinctive contribution to the bioethics literature
by culling the insights from contemporary moral psychology to highlight the epistemic pitfalls …

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 …

In this paper, I argue that Carroll and Crutchfield fail to show that restrictivism requires such
legislation. My argument turns on safehaven laws—laws that allow parents to surrender their …

Jeremy Williams argues that both anti-abortion and pro-choice theories seem to justify two
forms of anti-abortion violence–(1) violence against those that perform abortions, and (2) the …

Artificial wombs might be thought of as a way to resolve the abortion debate by enabling the
lives of unwanted prenatal human beings to be preserved. However, recent scholarly …

Emily Carroll and Parker Crutchfield propose a new inconsistency argument against
abortion restrictivism. In response, I raised several objections to their argument. Recently …