Many people prefer to be illogical on the issue of abortion because it suits them. For those opposed to abortion, the moral distinction between abortion and infanticide is an arbitrary one. If human ...

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1994), pp. 201-212 (12 pages) The Doctrine of Double Effect has been challenged by the claim that what an agent intends as a means may be limited to ...

There are different formulations of the doctrine of double effect (DDE), and sometimes philosophers propose "revisions" or alternatives, like the means principle, for instance. To demonstrate that ...

Part I: Catholic medical ethicists explain the Catholic tradition of double-effect theory and explore its ongoing impact on medicine and legislation. A Mary, Queen of Heaven, statue stands on a ...

Had previous popes given appropriate weight to the lives of women, correcting the 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae (a speculative, man-made treatise on contraception and natural law), Pope Benedict’s ...

(RNS) — Philosophers and moral theologians tell us that an action can be permitted if it intends to do good, citing the principle of “double effect.” Not everyone agrees, leading to various recent ...

Philip Reed, PhD, is a Professor of Philosophy at Canisius University, where he works on ethics, applied ethics, and moral psychology. His primary research interests in bioethics are the doctrine of ...