Introduction: What are Persons? What is Valuable?
Stephen Napier
Part 1. Philosophical Considerations
I was Once a Fetus: That is Why Abortion is Wrong
Alexander Pruss
Brain Life and the Argument from Potential: Affirming the Ontological Status of Human Embryos and Fetuses,
Jason T. Eberl and Brandon P. Brown
The Human Being, a Person of Substance: A Response to Dean Stretton, Francis J. Beckwith
The Concept of Person in Bioethics, Anselm Winfried Müller
Abortion and Virtue Ethics Mathew Lu
Embryos, Four-Dimensionalism, and Moral Status, David Hershenov
The Christian Hypothesis, David W. Fagerberg
Fetal Interests, Fetal Persons, and Human Goods, Christopher Tollefsen
Part 2. Scientific Considerations
Fetal Pains and Fetal Brains, A.A. Howsepian
A Biological Definition of the Human Embryo,
Maureen L. Condic
Part 3. Perspectives from Law and Political Philosophy
Public Reason and Abortion Revisited, David Thunder
Sexual Markets and the Law, Helen M. Alvaré
Index