In this issue of the journal Mark Brown has offered a new argument against my potential
future of value theory. I argue that even though the premises of this new argument are far …

This paper shows that the counterexamples proposed by Strong in 2008 in the Journal of
Medical Ethics to Marquis's argument against abortion fail. Strong's basic idea is that there …

In my essay, Why abortion is immoral, I criticised discussions of the morality of abortion in
which the crucial issue is whether fetuses are human beings or whether fetuses are persons …

According to the future of value argument for the immorality of abortion, the best explanation
for the presumptive serious wrongness of killing innocent post-natal children and adults is …

In an influential essay entitled Why abortion is wrong, Donald Marquis argues that killing
actual persons is wrong because it unjustly deprives victims of their future; that the fetus has …

The phrase 'the value of life'is important in bioethics, particularly for those who hold the
traditional views that life has intrinsic value and that the distinction between killing and …

The three major classical accounts of the morality of abortion are all subject to at least one
major problem. Can we do better? This article aims to discuss three accounts that purport to …

The debate over surgical abortion is certainly one of the most divisive in ethical discourse
and for many it seems interminable. However, this paper argues that a primary reason for …

The purpose of this essay is to compare the substantial identity argument for the wrongness
of abortion to the future of value argument for its wrongness. Both arguments take for …

None the less, I believe we have a good reason to conceive a baby, other things being
equal, in the same way as we have a good reason to paint a great painting (even though …