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Consequentialism and Abortion

by Tim Chappell

As a convinced anti-abortionist and anticonsequentialist, I can’t let Peter Lloyd’s stimulating article in Philosophy Now 3 go unchallenged.

( 1 ) “A legislature is morally bound to take a consequentialist approach to ethics”, writes Mr.Lloyd. How can this be literally true if, as he also says, “there is no correct system of personal ethics in an objective sense”?

( 2 ) Mr.Lloyd does not attempt to defend his consequentialism from even one of the multifarious objections to which consequentialism is notoriously prone.

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