Islamic moral judgement on abortion and its nursing applications: expository analysis

Abortion and Moral Risk1

It is natural for those with permissive attitudes toward abortion to suppose that, if they have examined all of the arguments they know against abortion and have concluded that they fail, their moral deliberations are at an end. Surprisingly, this is not the case, as I argue. This is because the mere risk that one of those arguments succeeds can generate a moral reason that counts against the a...

Vaccines, abortion, and moral coherence.

The health benefits associated with relatively recent advances in vaccine therapy are well documented. To mention just a few: in 1921 there were nearly 207,000 reported cases of diphtheria in the United States. In 1991, there were two. In the same year, apart from a small number (five to ten) of vaccine-associated cases, there were no reported cases of poliomyelitis, as compared with more than ...

Moral sentiment in judicial opinions on abortion.

A Computational Account of Complex Moral Judgement

In this paper, we analyze the task of complex moral judgement from a computational perspective. We present a theoretical framework that posits this process often involves the construction of a coherent explanation for observed behavior in terms of the mental states of the agents involved. We extend the framework to incorporate moral values as numeric annotations on cognitive structures and miti...

Temporal variability in moral value judgement

Moral judgments are known to change in response to changes in external conditions. But how variable are moral judgments over time in the absence of environmental variation? The moral domain has been described in terms of five moral foundations, categories that appear to capture moral judgment across cultures. We examined the temporal consistency of repeated responses to the moral foundations qu...