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Arguments about abortion : personhood, morality, and law
Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law which permits late abortion but not infanticide be morally justified? These are just some of the questions this book sets out t...
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N.Y.
Oxford University Press
2017
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Table of Contents:
- What should abortion argument be about?
- Gestation as good samaritanism
- Abortion as justified homicide
- Analogical arguments and sex equality
- Personhood thresholds, arbitrariness, and 'punctualism'
- Dualism, substantial identity, and the precautionary principle
- Gradualism and human embodiment
- Human equality and the significance of birth
- Regulating abortion
- Selective abortion : sex and disability
- Matters of conscience.