A substantial proportion of human embryos spontaneously abort soon after conception, and
ethicists have argued this is problematic for the pro-life view that a human embryo has the …

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 …

Arguments that claim opponents of abortion are inconsistent in their actions or beliefs are
increasingly prevalent. Here, we survey the most common of these arguments and describe …

Recently, the substance view of persons has been heavily criticized for the counterintuitive
conclusions it seems to imply in scenarios such as embryo rescue cases and embryo loss …

Can Rawlsian public reason sufficiently justify public policies that regulate or restrain
controversial medical and technological interventions in bioethics (and the broader social …

Joona Räsänen has argued that pro‐life arguments against the permissibility of infanticide
are not persuasive, and fail to show it to be immoral. We responded to Räsänen's …

The aim of this chapter is to identify and defend a binary and inclusive basis for basic human
equality that is normatively defensible. The mere existence of the human individual seems to …