1 ‘Abortion and Infanticide,’ Philosophy & Public Affairs l (1972) 37-65

2 Page references to this book are henceforth enclosed in parentheses in the text.

3 ‘Abortion and Infanticide,’ 64

4 The best conservative arguments known to me may be found in Donagan, Alan The Theory of Morality (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 1977),CrossRefGoogle Scholar Section 5.4, and Devine, Philip E. The Ethics of Homicide (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press 1978),Google Scholar Ch. 3.

5 For a defence of one such view see my Abortion and Moral Theory (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1981).

6 See Luker, Kristin Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press 1984).Google Scholar

7 One exception is Jaggar, Alison ‘Abortion and a Woman's Right to Decide,’ The Philosophical Forum 5 (1973) 347–60.Google Scholar

8 For a recent example see McDonnell, Kathleen Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-examines Abortion (Toronto: Women's Press 1984), Ch. 3.Google Scholar

9 What will surely remain for some time the definitive treatment of these issues is to be found in Parfit, Derek Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1984),Google Scholar Part Four.

10 ‘Abortion and Infanticide,’ 40

11 Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Part Three

12 Which is Parfit's own conclusion; see Reasons and Persons, Section 108.

13 Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Section 80