On how to interpret the role of the future within the abortion debate.
In a previous paper, I had argued that Strong's counterexamples to Marquis's argument against abortion-according to which terminating fetuses is wrong because it deprives them of a valuable future-fail either because they have no bearing on Marquis's argument or because they make unacceptable claims about what constitutes a valuable future. In this paper I respond to Strong's criticism of my argument according to which I fail to acknowledge that Marquis uses "future like ours" and "valuable future" interchangeably. I show that my argument does not rely on not acknowledging that "future like ours" and "valuable future" are interchangeable; and that, rather, it is exactly by replacing "future like ours" with "valuable future" that I construct my argument against Strong. I conclude with some remarks on how Marquis's concept of "future like ours" should be interpreted.
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University College Dublin, Ireland. ezio.dinucci@ucd.ie
D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000941:ethics* / Q000639:trends; D005260:Female; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D026712:Value of Life