Infanticide and the liberal view on abortion.
Mary Anne Warren provides a well-known defense of the liberal position in the abortion debate, yet her argument is subject to the objection that it implies that infanticide is morally permissible. In a postscript to her original article, Warren argues that her position does not commit her to the moral acceptability of infanticide. I argue that the reasoning Warren presents in her postscript on infanticide undermines her original main argument in support of the liberal view: she cannot use this argument to both defend the liberal view on abortion and establish that infanticide is morally wrong.
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Department of Humanities, Ferris State University.
D000028:Abortion, Induced; D003243:Consciousness; D005260:Female; D005328:Fetal Viability; D005333:Fetus; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007237:Infanticide; D011247:Pregnancy