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Arguments about Abortion - Personhood, Morality, and Law (Hardcover)
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Arguments about Abortion - Personhood, Morality, and Law (Hardcover)
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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 to address. With an
extended analysis of the moral and legal status of abortion, Kate
Greasley offers an alternative account to the reputable arguments
of Ronald Dworkin and Judith Jarvis Thomson and instead brings the
philosophical notion of 'personhood' to the foreground of this
debate. Structured in three parts, the book will (I) consider the
relevance of prenatal personhood for the moral and legal evaluation
of abortion; (II) trace the key features of the conventional debate
about when personhood begins and explore the most prominent issues
in abortion ethics literature: the human equality problem and the
difference between abortion and infanticide; and (III) examine
abortion law and regulation as well as the differing attitudes to
selective abortion. The book concludes with a snapshot into the
current controversy surrounding the scope of the right to
conscientiously object to participation in abortion provision.
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