Future technologies as a solution to bypass old moral impasses

Francesca Minerva (University of Melbourne)

Abortion is one of the most debated, and yet still most controversial, issues in medical ethics. The discussion around the moral (and legal) permissibility of abortion has been going on for several decades. The main approaches to the issue have been, and still are, the so called “pro-life view” and “pro-choice view’. This paper does not have the goal of solving the moral problem of abortion by introducing a third moral approach to the issue; or by presenting the best argument to support one view rather than the other. Goal of this paper is instead the exploration of new technologies in order to bypass a theoretical impasse.