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The ethics of abortion: women's rights, human life, and the question of justice
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From the Book - Second edition.
1. Introduction
How should we talk about abortion?
Loaded language
Women and abortion
Moral goodness and human flourishing
1. Is after-birth abortion ethically permissible?
After-birth abortion : why should the baby live?
A case against after-birth abortion
Other arguments for infanticide
A critique of arguments for infanticide
A critique of Neo-Lockean personhood
Seriously ill newborns
Arbitrary limits and absurd consequences
3. Does personhood begin at birth?
Distinguishing humans from persons
Abortion yes, infanticide no
Critiquing the conventional view
Is personhood a matter of location?
What is partial-birth abortion?
Reconsidering Warren's account
4. Does personhood begin during pregnancy?
Conscious desires/interests
Viability
Quickening/fetal movement
Sentience
Human appearance
Brain development
Implantation
5. Is fetal moral status linked to fetal development?
The developmental view
A critique of the developmental view
The time-relative interest account
Late-term abortion and early-term abortion
6. Does personhood begin at conception?
Are all human beings persons?
Personhood as endowment or performance?
Humans are rational animals
When do humans begin to exist?
The constitutive property argument
The flourishing like ours argument
The lessons of history.
7. Objections to the basic moral status of human embryos
The acorn analogy
Size
Twinning
Embryo fusion
High embryo mortality rate
Hylomorphism
Anti-abortion, anti-contraception
Living human cells are not persons
Embryo rescue case
The bag of marbles analogy
Cost-benefit analysis
The uncertainty argument
8. Is it wrong to abort a person?
The violinist analogy
The burglar analogy
The "no worse off" argument
Critical analysis of the violinist analogy
The misunderstood Samaritan
The bodily integrity objection
The consistency objection
The intention/foresight objection
Critical analysis of the burglar analogy
Special duties to care for children?
The intimacy defense of abortion
The comparative burdens objection
Forcible organ donation
The right to control your own body
Does killing make a human being "worse off"?
9. Hard cases for critics of abortion
Difficult circumstances
Fetal deformity
Abortion for the child's good
Cases of rape and incest
Abortion is safer than childbirth
Abortion to save the mother's life
The right to self-defense and double effect reasoning
Ectopic pregnancy
The hysterectomy case
The craniotomy case
10. Hard cases for defenders of abortion
Murder of pregnant women
Sex selection abortion
Abortion for frivolous reasons
Safe, legal, but why rare?
Why personal opposition?
Prenatal bonding with "our baby"
11. Abortion and conscience protections
Conscience and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
The incompatibility thesis
Discrimination and conscientious objection
The rights and autonomy of patients
A duty to refer?
Respect for humanity
Protection for institutions
Conscience as a justification for abortion
12. Could artificial wombs end the abortion debate?
Artificial wombs and ardent defenders of abortion
Artificial wombs and ardent critics of abortion
The artificiality objection
The IVF objection
The deprivation of maternal shelter objection
The wrongful experimentation objection
The pro-life case for artificial wombs
An end to the abortion debate?
Appendix : the myth of the child as vampire.
From the Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction
How should we talk about abortion?
Loaded language
Women and abortion
Moral goodness and human flourishing
Does Personhood Begin After Birth?
Persons vs human beings
Not all human beings are persons
Potentiality is irrelevant
When does personhood begin?
Critical responses to justifications of infanticide
Is species morally irrelevant?
Potentiality and the symmetry principle
Curious exceptions to the rule
Defining personhood
Seriously ill newborns
Arbitrary limits?
Does Personhood Begin At Birth?
Distinguishing humans from persons
Abortion yes, infanticide no
Critiquing the conventional view
Is personhood a matter of location?
What is partial birth abortion?
Reconsidering Warren's account
Does Personhood Begin During Pregnancy?
What characteristic grants personhood?
Conscious desire/interests
Viability
Quickening/fetal movement
Sentience
Human appearance
Brain development
Implantation
Developmental view
Critique of the developmental view
Does Personhood Begin At Conception?
Are all human beings persons?
Personhood as endowment or performance?
Humans are rational animals
Lessons of history
When do humans begin to exist?
Constitutive property argument
Does The Human Embryo Have Rights?
Acorn analogy
Size
Twinning
Embryo fusion
High embryo-mortality rate
Hylomorphism
Anti-abortion, anti-contraception
Living human cells are not persons
Embryo rescue case
Bag of marbles analogy
Cost-benefit analysis
Uncertainty argument
Is It Wrong To abort A Person?
Violinist analogy
Burglar analogy
No worse off argument
Critical analysis of the violinist analogy
Misunderstood Samaritan
Bodily integrity objection
Consistency objection
Intention/foresight objection
Critical analysis of the burglar analogy
Special duties to care for children?
Comparative burdens objection
Does killing make a being "worse off"?
Is Abortion Permissible In Hard Cases?
Hard cases for critics of abortion
Difficult circumstances
Fetal deformity
Abortion for the child's good
Cases of rape and incest
Abortion to save the mother's life
Cases of conscience
Hard cases for defenders of abortion
Murder of pregnant women
Sex selection abortion
Abortion for frivolous reasons
Safe and legal, but why rare?
Why personal opposition?
Prenatal bonding with "our baby"
Morally permissible vs morally objectionable
Intermediate moral worth of the human fetus
Could Artificial Wombs End The Abortion Debate?
Artificial wombs and ardent defenders of abortion
Artificial wombs and ardent critics of abortion
Artificiality objection
IVF objection
Deprivation of maternal shelter objection
Birth within marriage objection
Integrative parenthood objection
Surrogate motherhood objection
Wrongful experimentation objection
Objection from the right of a child to develop in the womb of the mother
End to the abortion debate?
Bibliography
Index.
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Subjects
Subjects
Abortion
Abortion, Criminal
Abortion, Criminal -- ethics
Abortion, Criminal -- legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion, Induced
Abortion, Induced -- ethics
Abortion, Induced -- legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion -- Law and legislation
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects
ethics
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Ethik
General
Law and legislation
legislation & jurisprudence
Moral and ethical aspects
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY -- General
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Women's rights
Abortion, Criminal
Abortion, Criminal -- ethics
Abortion, Criminal -- legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion, Induced
Abortion, Induced -- ethics
Abortion, Induced -- legislation & jurisprudence
Abortion -- Law and legislation
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects
ethics
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Ethik
General
Law and legislation
legislation & jurisprudence
Moral and ethical aspects
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY -- General
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Women's rights
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9780415884693
9780203841167
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9780415884686
9780415732932
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9780203841167
9780415732925
9780415884686
9780415732932
041573293
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