PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Alex Gillham TI - Strengthened impairment argument: restating Marquis? AID - 10.1136/medethics-2020-107176 DP - 2021 Jan 27 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - medethics-2020-107176 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/26/medethics-2020-107176.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/26/medethics-2020-107176.full AB - Blackshaw and Hendricks recently developed a strengthened version of the impairment argument (SIA) that imports Marquis’ account of the wrongness of abortion. I then argued that if SIA imports Marquis’ account, then it restates Marquis’ position and thus is not very significant. In turn, Blackshaw and Hendricks explained why they take SIA to be importantly different from Marquis’ account. I have two aims in this response. First, I reconstruct Blackshaw and Hendricks’ arguments for the claim that SIA is importantly different from Marquis’ account. Second, I argue that SIA is not importantly different from Marquis’ account in the respect that Blackshaw and Hendricks take it to be.