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  1. Abortion and deprivation: a reply to Marquis.Anna Christensen - 2019 - Journal of Medical Ethics 45 (1):22-25.
    In ‘Why Abortion is Immoral’, Don Marquis argues that abortion is wrong for the same reason that murder is wrong, namely, that it deprives a human being of an FLO, a ‘future like ours,’ which is a future full of value and the experience of life. Marquis’ argument rests on the assumption that the human being is somehow deprived by suffering an early death. I argue that Marquis’ argument faces the ‘Epicurean Challenge’. The concept of ‘deprivation’ requires that some discernible (...)
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  • Must We Accept Either the Conservative or the Liberal View on Abortion?Hugh V. McLachlan - 1977 - Analysis 37 (4):197 - 204.
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  • Strong's objections to the future of value account.Don Marquis - 2011 - Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (6):384-388.
    According to Carson Strong, the future of value account of the wrongness of killing is subject to counterexamples. Ezio Di Nucci has disagreed. Their disagreement turns on whether the concepts of a future of value and a future like ours are equivalent. Unfortunately, both concepts are fuzzy, which explains, at least in part, the disagreement. I suggest that both concepts can be clarified in ways that seem plausible and that makes them equivalent. Strong claims that better accounts of the wrongness (...)
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  • Moral rights to life, both natural and non-natural: reflections on James Griffin.Hugh V. McLachlan - 2010 - Diametros 26:58-76.
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