Research Catalog

Title

The abortion controversy : 25 years after Roe v. Wade : a reader / [compiled by] Louis P. Pojman, Francis J. Beckwith.

Publication

Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pojman, Louis P.
• Beckwith, Francis.

Description

xix, 469 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Abortion
• Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects
• Ethics, Medical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Breaking through the stereotypes / Daniel Callahan and Sidney Callahan -- Roe v. Wade (1973) U.S. Supreme Court -- Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) / U.S. Supreme Court -- Roe v. Wade: no basis in law, logic, or history / Dennis J. Horan and Thomas J. Balch -- Roe v. Wade: a study in male ideology / Catharine MacKinnon -- Some thoughts on autonomy and equality in relation to Roe v. Wade / Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Arguments from bodily rights: a critical analysis / Francis J. Beckwith.
• A defense of "A Defense of Abortion": on the responsibility objection to Thomson's argument / David Boonin-Vail -- Abortion logic and paternal responsibilities: one more look at Judith Thomson's argument and a critique of David Boonin-Vail's defense of it / Keith Pavlischek -- Abortion is morally wrong / John T. Noonan, Jr. -- In defense of aboriton and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- The scop50500 A defense of "A Defense of Abortion": on the responsibility objection to Thomson's argument / David Boonin-Vail -- Abortion logic and paternal responsibilities: one more look at Judith Thomson's argument and a critique of David Boonin-Vail's defense of it / Keith Pavlischek -- Abortion is morally wrong / John T. Noonan, Jr. -- In defense of aboriton and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- The scope of the prohibition against killing / Philip Devine -- Personhood begins at conception / Stephen Schwarz -- Abortion: a defense of the personhood argument / Louis P. Pojman -- Abortion and human rights / Norman C. Gillespie -- A defense of the moderate position / L.W. Sumner.
• Abortion: beyond the personhood argument / Jane English -- The golden rule argument against abortion / Harry J. Gensler -- Why aboriton is immoral / Don Marquis -- Does a fetus already have a future-like-ours? / Peter K. McInerney -- Abortion and the neo-natal right to life: a critique of Marquis's futurist argument / Gerald H. Paske -- A future like ours and the concept of person: a reply to McInerney and Paske / Don Marquis.

ISBN

0534557643 (acid-free recycled paper)

LCCN

^^^98010664^

OCLC

• 38206705
• SCSB-10147805

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library