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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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| Format: | Printed Book |
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UK,
OUP,
2017.
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| Ausgabe: | First edition. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.