Elective Abandonment: A Male Counterpart to Abortion

• Published in: The new bioethics Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 122 - 134
• Main Author: Playford, Richard C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.07.2018
• Subjects: Bioethics; elective abandonment; Abortion; fatherhood

Two of the most influential arguments in favour of the permissibility of abortion were put forward in the latter half of the twentieth century by Judith Jarvis Thomson and Mary Anne Warren. The implications of these arguments for unwilling putative fathers have largely not been considered. Some have...