The main purpose of this chapter is to examine three arguments – from Hare, Marquis and Harman – that, whether by design or not, place the permissibility of the early abortion in doubt. Each of the three arguments is grounded in positions that seem to assign at least some moral significance to the loss incurred by a merely possible person when that person is left out of existence altogether. Those positions are, in turn, at odds with the account of the moral significance of loss that Variabilism itself suggests.
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Roberts, M. A. (2010). Three More Arguments Against Early Abortion. In Philosophy and Medicine (Vol. 107, pp. 121–143). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3792-3_4
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