“Abortion and the Non-Identity Problem” by Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University Abstract: Does the choice whether to abort (sometimes) raise the non-identity problem? I examine how this question is answered if various views of the moral status of fetuses are true. I argue that on some of these views, the choice whether to abort does indeed raise the non-identity problem. It follows that abortion is sometimes morally required, and that, surprisingly, sometimes one is morally required to kill a being *for its own sake*, even though killing it would be worse for it than allowing it to continue to live.
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Wed Jul 17, 2019 5:30am – 7am Coordinated Universal Time
