Don Marquis ( ; 1935 - 2022) was an American

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and deontologist whose main academic interests were in

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and

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. Marquis was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the

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until his death. Marquis earned an A.B. in Anatomy and Physiology from

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in 1957. After receiving an M.A. in History from the

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in 1962, Marquis returned to Indiana University to study philosophy. He received an M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana in 1964 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1970. He taught at the University of Kansas from 1967. During the 2007/08 academic year, Marquis held the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching at the University Center for Human Values at

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.Don Marquis's curriculum vitae
, accessed June 29, 2011. Marquis was best known for his paper "Why Abortion Is Immoral", which appeared in ''

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'' in April, 1989. This paper has been reprinted over 80 times, and is widely cited in the philosophical debate over abortion. The main argument in the paper is sometimes known as the " deprivation argument", since a central premise is that abortion deprives an embryo or fetus of a "future like ours"."Why Abortion Is Immoral"
Journal of Philosophy LXXXVI (April, 1989) #4, 183-202

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