PDF Download. Download this essay in PDF.. About the Author. Nathan Nobis is a Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA. He is the author of Animals & Ethics 101, co-author of Thinking Critically About Abortion, a co-author of Chimpanzee Rights, and author or co-author of many other articles, chapters, and reviews in philosophy and ethics.
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Abortion. This article gives an overview of the moral and legal aspects of abortion and evaluates the most important arguments. The central moral aspect concerns whether there is any morally relevant point during the biological process of the development of the fetus from its beginning as a unicellular zygote to birth itself that may justify not having an abortion after that point.
The Moral Significance of Abortion Inconsistency Arguments
This essay sets out to show, as well as any philosophical argument can, that inconsistency arguments are morally significant. Keywords: Abortion, Reproductive ethics, Spontaneous ... Davis, Nancy. 1984. Abortion and self-defense. Philosophy and Public Affairs 13(3): 175-207. Fleck, Leonard M. 1979. Abortion, deformed fetuses, and the Omega ...
Philosophy and the Morality of Abortion
3. The Politics of Philosophy. The abortion argument resolves itself into a conflict between two moral and conceptual constructions, within each of which the question has an obvious and unassailable answer. Hence, as has been noted, the remarkable confidence with which both sides hold their convictions.
A Defense of Abortion
A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
Philosophical aspects of the abortion debate
The philosophical aspects of the abortion debate are logical arguments that can be made either in support of or in opposition to abortion.The philosophical arguments in the abortion debate are deontological or rights-based.The view that all or almost all abortion should be illegal generally rests on the claims that (1) the existence and moral right to life of human beings (human organisms ...
5.1: Arguments Against Abortion
5.1.1 Fetuses are human. 5.1.2 Fetuses are human beings. 5.1.3 Fetuses are persons. 5.1.4 Fetuses are potential persons. 5.1.5 Abortion prevents fetuses from experiencing their valuable futures. We will begin with arguments for the conclusion that abortion is generally wrong, perhaps nearly always wrong. These can be seen as reasons to believe ...
PDF The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect
1977/2002 Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy. (Minor stylistic amendments have been made.) One of the reasons why most of us feel puzzled about the problem of abortion is that we want, and do not want, to allow to the unborn child the rights that belong to adults and children. When we think of a baby about to be born it
Abortion: Morality, Politics, Philosophy
Abortion is a complex and fraught topic. Morally, a very wide range of individual, familial, and social concerns converge upon it. Politically, longstanding controversies have been given new salience and urgency by the Dobbs decision and the ongoing moves by state legislatures to restrict access to abortion. In terms of moral philosophy, deep issues in ethics merge with equally deep questions ...
Abortion
The Biologically Defined Species Homo sapiens. In popular arguments against abortion, perhaps the most common appeal is to the view that any innocent organism that belongs to the biologically defined species Homo sapiens has a right to life. In thinking about this argument, a certain philosophical distinction is crucial—the distinction, namely, between basic moral principles and derived ones ...
Abortion Rights: For and Against
Greasley begins the central argumentative part of her essay in favor of abortion rights by conceding what she calls the "silver bullet," namely that "if the fetus is a person, equivalent in value to a born human being, then abortion is almost always morally wrong and legal abortion permissions almost entirely unjustified" (5).
Abortion
Abstract. Abortion is one of those classic problems that has been discussed in all of the major 'fertile periods' of practical philosophy, from the flourishing of Greek thought, through the medieval period, in the Renaissance and from the start of modern applied ethics in the 1960s. This article begins with a brief historical overview of ...
Ethics and Abortion
The focus of these arguments is on the morality of abortion, not its constitutional or legal status. This is important. One might believe, as many do, that at least some abortions are immoral but ...
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the right to ownership of her own body. the right to decide her own future. the right to take decisions without moral or legal intervention by others. the pregnant woman has the right to life ...
Reflections on Abortion, Values, and the Family
Abstract. We live in a society marked by moral conflict. This conflict has deep historical roots and is reflected in our institutions, practices, laws, norms, and values. The abortion debate taps strongly held, powerfully experienced moral and political imperatives. These imperatives, in turn, are linked internally to a cluster of complex ...
Why Abortion is Immoral
This essay sets. out an argument that purports to show, as well as any argument in. ethics can show, that abortion is, except possibly in rare cases, seri- ously immoral, that it is in the same moral category as killing an. innocent adult human being. The argument is based on a major assumption.
Four pro-life philosophers make the case against abortion
To put it mildly, the American Philosophical Association is not a bastion of pro-life sentiment. Hence, I was surprised to discover that the A.P.A. had organized a pro-life symposium, "New Pro ...
Liberty, Logic & Abortion
Articles Liberty, Logic & Abortion Mark Goldblatt analyses the moral and legal arguments on both sides of America's most divisive issue.. January 22nd has evolved into a national red letter day of sorts, the anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v.Wade decision. Commemorations abound, typically sloganeering rallies, and mainstream journals churn out perfunctory retrospectives.
Judith Jarvis Thomson, A defense of abortion
A defense of abortion. Judith Jarvis Thomson- 2009- In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. New York: Oxford University Press. David Boonin, A Defense of Abortion. [REVIEW]Anna Sherratt- 2004- Philosophy in Review24:84-85. Book Review: A Defense of Abortion.
Abortion
This essay examines Gensler's general consistency principle (GR) and its application to the moral permissibility of abortion. ... That is, I explore the extent to which, according to Kant's practical philosophy, abortion is punishable, even if it involves an unjust infringement of the right to life. By focusing on the state's right to ...
The Effects Of Abortion Philosophy Essay
The response to abortion consists of four phases: phase 1 is short and comprises the immediate reaction and alleviation that the pregnancy is over; phase 2 can last for several weeks or months, with anxiety and even guilt being experienced by 20% of women 2 years after the abortion; phase 3 corresponds to a pathological phase, that is, when ...
The moral and philosophical importance of abortion
Abortion services should be part of a comprehensive sexual health programme; Lack of funding and illegality do not reduce the number of abortions, they only serve to put the woman's health in danger. 1. Despite this, abortion is illegal or difficult to access in many countries and has recently come under renewed attack in the Western world.
The Ethics Of Abortion Philosophy Essay
The Ethics Of Abortion Philosophy Essay. Abortion has been the source of considerable debate for many years. Most people feel strongly one way or another, which makes it a pretty heated topic of conversation. The fight between pro-life and pro-choice is an ongoing battle and the ethical dilemma within this controversy is far more complicated ...
Abortion Experiences, Knowledge, and Attitudes Among Women in the ...
This brief provides new information from the 2024 KFF Women's Health Survey about women's experiences with abortion, the fallout of overturning Roe v. Wade, women's knowledge about abortion ...
Dobbs and Democracy by Katherine Shaw, Melissa Murray
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Justice Alito justified the decision to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey with an appeal to democracy. He insisted that it was "time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."
New Mexico asks healthcare workers to move, citing abortion laws
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Conservative state court rebukes the Supreme Court on abortion
Utah fought the lower court injunction by stressing the kind of argument the U.S. Supreme Court's supermajority made in reversing Roe v.Wade: arguing that there could be no right to abortion ...
Fact-Checking Claims About Tim Walz's Record
Republicans have leveled inaccurate or misleading attacks on Mr. Walz's response to protests in the summer of 2020, his positions on immigration and his role in the redesign of Minnesota's flag.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walks back federal abortion ban comments
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PDF Download. Download this essay in PDF.. About the Author. Nathan Nobis is a Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA. He is the author of Animals & Ethics 101, co-author of Thinking Critically About Abortion, a co-author of Chimpanzee Rights, and author or co-author of many other articles, chapters, and reviews in philosophy and ethics.
Abortion. This article gives an overview of the moral and legal aspects of abortion and evaluates the most important arguments. The central moral aspect concerns whether there is any morally relevant point during the biological process of the development of the fetus from its beginning as a unicellular zygote to birth itself that may justify not having an abortion after that point.
This essay sets out to show, as well as any philosophical argument can, that inconsistency arguments are morally significant. Keywords: Abortion, Reproductive ethics, Spontaneous ... Davis, Nancy. 1984. Abortion and self-defense. Philosophy and Public Affairs 13(3): 175-207. Fleck, Leonard M. 1979. Abortion, deformed fetuses, and the Omega ...
3. The Politics of Philosophy. The abortion argument resolves itself into a conflict between two moral and conceptual constructions, within each of which the question has an obvious and unassailable answer. Hence, as has been noted, the remarkable confidence with which both sides hold their convictions.
A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
The philosophical aspects of the abortion debate are logical arguments that can be made either in support of or in opposition to abortion.The philosophical arguments in the abortion debate are deontological or rights-based.The view that all or almost all abortion should be illegal generally rests on the claims that (1) the existence and moral right to life of human beings (human organisms ...
5.1.1 Fetuses are human. 5.1.2 Fetuses are human beings. 5.1.3 Fetuses are persons. 5.1.4 Fetuses are potential persons. 5.1.5 Abortion prevents fetuses from experiencing their valuable futures. We will begin with arguments for the conclusion that abortion is generally wrong, perhaps nearly always wrong. These can be seen as reasons to believe ...
1977/2002 Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy. (Minor stylistic amendments have been made.) One of the reasons why most of us feel puzzled about the problem of abortion is that we want, and do not want, to allow to the unborn child the rights that belong to adults and children. When we think of a baby about to be born it
Abortion is a complex and fraught topic. Morally, a very wide range of individual, familial, and social concerns converge upon it. Politically, longstanding controversies have been given new salience and urgency by the Dobbs decision and the ongoing moves by state legislatures to restrict access to abortion. In terms of moral philosophy, deep issues in ethics merge with equally deep questions ...
The Biologically Defined Species Homo sapiens. In popular arguments against abortion, perhaps the most common appeal is to the view that any innocent organism that belongs to the biologically defined species Homo sapiens has a right to life. In thinking about this argument, a certain philosophical distinction is crucial—the distinction, namely, between basic moral principles and derived ones ...
Greasley begins the central argumentative part of her essay in favor of abortion rights by conceding what she calls the "silver bullet," namely that "if the fetus is a person, equivalent in value to a born human being, then abortion is almost always morally wrong and legal abortion permissions almost entirely unjustified" (5).
Abstract. Abortion is one of those classic problems that has been discussed in all of the major 'fertile periods' of practical philosophy, from the flourishing of Greek thought, through the medieval period, in the Renaissance and from the start of modern applied ethics in the 1960s. This article begins with a brief historical overview of ...
The focus of these arguments is on the morality of abortion, not its constitutional or legal status. This is important. One might believe, as many do, that at least some abortions are immoral but ...
the right to ownership of her own body. the right to decide her own future. the right to take decisions without moral or legal intervention by others. the pregnant woman has the right to life ...
Abstract. We live in a society marked by moral conflict. This conflict has deep historical roots and is reflected in our institutions, practices, laws, norms, and values. The abortion debate taps strongly held, powerfully experienced moral and political imperatives. These imperatives, in turn, are linked internally to a cluster of complex ...
This essay sets. out an argument that purports to show, as well as any argument in. ethics can show, that abortion is, except possibly in rare cases, seri- ously immoral, that it is in the same moral category as killing an. innocent adult human being. The argument is based on a major assumption.
To put it mildly, the American Philosophical Association is not a bastion of pro-life sentiment. Hence, I was surprised to discover that the A.P.A. had organized a pro-life symposium, "New Pro ...
Articles Liberty, Logic & Abortion Mark Goldblatt analyses the moral and legal arguments on both sides of America's most divisive issue.. January 22nd has evolved into a national red letter day of sorts, the anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v.Wade decision. Commemorations abound, typically sloganeering rallies, and mainstream journals churn out perfunctory retrospectives.
A defense of abortion. Judith Jarvis Thomson- 2009- In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology. New York: Oxford University Press. David Boonin, A Defense of Abortion. [REVIEW]Anna Sherratt- 2004- Philosophy in Review24:84-85. Book Review: A Defense of Abortion.
This essay examines Gensler's general consistency principle (GR) and its application to the moral permissibility of abortion. ... That is, I explore the extent to which, according to Kant's practical philosophy, abortion is punishable, even if it involves an unjust infringement of the right to life. By focusing on the state's right to ...
The response to abortion consists of four phases: phase 1 is short and comprises the immediate reaction and alleviation that the pregnancy is over; phase 2 can last for several weeks or months, with anxiety and even guilt being experienced by 20% of women 2 years after the abortion; phase 3 corresponds to a pathological phase, that is, when ...
Abortion services should be part of a comprehensive sexual health programme; Lack of funding and illegality do not reduce the number of abortions, they only serve to put the woman's health in danger. 1. Despite this, abortion is illegal or difficult to access in many countries and has recently come under renewed attack in the Western world.
The Ethics Of Abortion Philosophy Essay. Abortion has been the source of considerable debate for many years. Most people feel strongly one way or another, which makes it a pretty heated topic of conversation. The fight between pro-life and pro-choice is an ongoing battle and the ethical dilemma within this controversy is far more complicated ...
This brief provides new information from the 2024 KFF Women's Health Survey about women's experiences with abortion, the fallout of overturning Roe v. Wade, women's knowledge about abortion ...
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Justice Alito justified the decision to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey with an appeal to democracy. He insisted that it was "time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."
Texas passed its abortion law soon after Roe v Wade was overturned. The ban makes performing an abortion punishable by up to life in prison, unless, "in the exercise of reasonable medical ...
Utah fought the lower court injunction by stressing the kind of argument the U.S. Supreme Court's supermajority made in reversing Roe v.Wade: arguing that there could be no right to abortion ...
Republicans have leveled inaccurate or misleading attacks on Mr. Walz's response to protests in the summer of 2020, his positions on immigration and his role in the redesign of Minnesota's flag.
Minnesota's policies around abortion make it among the most protective states for abortion access, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that supports ...
B Anthony Pro-Life America, an anti-abortion group, issued a statement calling Kennedy Jr's remarks "a stark contrast to the Democratic Party's radical stance of abortion ."