Avoiding the Personhood Issue: Abortion, Identity, and Marquis's ‘Future-Like-Ours’ Argument

One reason for the persistent appeal of Don Marquis' 'future like ours' argument (FLO) is that it seems to offer a way to approach the debate about the morality of abortion while sidestepping the difficult task of establishing whether the fetus is a person. This essay argues that in order to satisfactorily address both of the chief objections to FLO - the 'identity objection' and the 'contraception objection' - Marquis must take a controversial...