The Impairment Argument Against Abortion

In Nicholas Colgrove, Bruce P. Blackshaw & Daniel Rodger (eds.), Agency, Pregnancy, and Persons: Essays in Defense of Human Life (2022)
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I provide an updated version of The Impairment Argument against abortion and respond to numerous objections that can be (and have been) raised to it.

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Perry Hendricks
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Impairing the Impairment Argument.Kyle van Oosterum & Emma J. Curran - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Ethics.
Defending the Impairment Argument.Bruce Philip Blackshaw - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Ethics.

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Why abortion is immoral.Don Marquis - 1989 - Journal of Philosophy 86 (4):183-202.
A Defense of Abortion.David Boonin - 2002 - Cambridge University Press.
Abortion and Infanticide.Michael Tooley - 1972 - Philosophy 59 (230):545-547.
Fetuses, Newborns, and Parental Responsibility.Prabhpal Singh - 2020 - Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (3):188-193.
Fine-Tuning the Impairment Argument.Bruce Blackshaw & Perry Hendricks - 2021 - Journal of Medical Ethics 47 (9):641-642.

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