ABSTRACT
We’ve studied various approaches to ethics. In this, our final chapter, we’ll try to achieve a more unified understanding of these views and what difference they make. We’ll do this by applying these views to a specific moral issue-the hotly disputed topic of abortion. This will also be an example of applied normative ethics. We’ll first consider some abortion arguments that appeal to antecedent moral principles. Then we’ll move back to our central question: “How should we pick our moral principles?” I’ll argue that the appeal to consistency gives a helpful way to deal with the issue.
