National Review

Abortion, Infanticide, and the Doctrine of Double Effect

Taylor Lorenz Has the Goods (Really) on the Left’s Paid Online Influencers Trump Is Right to Take On the Federal-Worker Unions Celebrating the Decline of Big Labor Management’s Favorite Unions Don’t ...
JSTOR Daily

The Secret to the Success of the Doctrine of Double Effect (and Related Principles): Biased Framing, Inadequate Methodology, and Clever Distractions

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

Revising the Doctrine of Double Effect

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 ...
National Catholic Register

Catholic Moral Tradition Shines Light on Hard Questions About Abortion

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 ...
Medicine Buffalo

Philip Reed

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 ...