The Ethics of Abortion: Women's Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice

ISBN-13: 9781032304632 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Christopher Kaczor

Opis

Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. This third edition critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying basic rights to fetal human beings.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Is after-birth abortion ethically permissible?  3. Does personhood begin at birth?  4. Does personhood begin during pregnancy?  5. Is fetal moral status linked to fetal development?  6. Does personhood begin at conception?  7. Objections to the basic moral status of human embryos  8. Is it wrong to abort a person?  9. Hard cases for critics of abortion  10. Hard cases for defenders of abortion  11. Abortion and conscience protections 12. Could artifical wombs end the abortion debate?