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Infanticide and the Liberal View on Abortion
Author(s) -
Card Robert F.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8519.00201
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , abortion , commit , subject (documents) , law , position (finance) , sociology , epistemology , law and economics , philosophy , political science , economics , pregnancy , medicine , genetics , finance , database , library science , computer science , biology
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.