Abortion, Time-Relative Interests, and Futures Like Ours

Don Marquis (1989) has argued most abortions are immoral, for the same reason that killing you or me is immoral: abortion deprives the fetus of a valuable future (FLO). Call this account the FLOA. A rival account is Jeff McMahan’s (2002), time-relative interest account (TRIA) of the wrongness of kil...

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Main Author: Nichols, Peter (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2012
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2012, Volume: 15, Issue: 4, Pages: 493-506
Further subjects:B Killing
B Time-relative interest
B David DeGrazia
B Don Marquis
B harm of death
B Future Like Ours
B Jeff McMahan
B Abortion
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