It is often noted that the public discussion of abortion’s moral status is disappointingly crude. The positions staked out and the reasoning proffered seem to reflect little of the subtlety and nuance—not to mention ambivalence—that mark more private reflections on the subject. … [more]

• Abortion & the Margins of Personhood. Margaret Little. Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 39, 2008, pp. 331- 348.
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• Abortion and Sexuality. Margaret Olivia Little. In Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, ed. Alan Soble, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005.
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• The Moral Permissibility of Abortion. Margaret Olivia Little. In Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, ed. Andrew Cohen and Christopher Wellman, Blackwell Press, 2005 Reprinted in Ethics in Practice, 3rd. ed., ed. Hugh LaFollette (Blackwell Press) 2006.
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• The Morality of Abortion. Margaret Olivia Little. In A Companion to Applied Ethics, (Blackwell Publishing), eds. Christopher Wellman and Rey Frey, 2003; reprinted in Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 6th ed., eds. John D. Arras and Bonnie Steinbock (Mayfield Publishing), 2002 Reprinted in Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 6th ed., eds. John D. Arras and Bonnie Steinbock (Mayfield Publishing); in Taking Sides: Bioethics Issues, 11th ed., ed. Carol Levine (McGraw-Hilll), 2005; portion reprinted in Biomedical Ethics, sixth edition (McGraw-Hill, 2006), eds. Thomas A. Mappes and David DeGrazia..
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• Abortion, Intimacy, and the Duty to Gestate. Maggie Little. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2, 1999, pp. 295-312.
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