John Ku, a grad student at Michigan, has a nice abortion argument on his webpage. You can find it here (click on the "abortion" button you’ll see near the top of the page). Its conclusion is that abortion is not murder. I don’t have much to say about his argument, other than that I think it works, and that I think its result is conveniently compatible with the result of the "precautionary principle" I’ve advocated.
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Abortion and uncertainty
As I’ve argued before, it seems to me that the orthodox pro-choice view is wrong to deny that a fetus is an object of moral concern. My point isn’t that the fetus is obviously a person, or that it clearly has a right to life, or even that abortion is
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