In a recent article, William Simkulet has argued against the anti-abortion view by invoking
the fact that many human fetuses die from spontaneous abortion. He argues that this fact …

Many people believe human fetuses have the same moral status as adult human persons,
that it is wrong to allow harm to befall things with this moral status, and thus voluntary …

Spontaneous abortion is rarely addressed in moral evaluations of abortion.
Indeed,'abortion'is virtually always taken to mean only induced abortion. After a brief review …

According to the two-tragedies argument proponents of pro-life can justifiably prioritize
efforts to prevent abortion rather than miscarriages due to the fact that abortions in contrast …

Also, this essay will neglect issues of great importance to a complete ethics of abortion.
Some anti‐-abortionists will allow that certain abortions, such as abortion before …

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 …

What role does birth play in the debate about elective abortion? Does the wrongness of
infanticide imply the wrongness of late-term abortion? In this paper, I argue that the same or …

In a recent paper, Giubilini and Minerva argue for the moral permissibility of what they call
'after-birth abortion', or infanticide. Here I suggest that they actually employ a confusion of …

In the aftermath of the K ermit G osnell trial and G iubilini and M inerva's article 'After‐birth
abortion', abortion‐rights advocates have been pressured to provide an account of the moral …

In their controversial paper 'After-birth abortion', Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva
argue that there is no rational basis for allowing abortion but prohibiting infanticide ('after …