ISBN:
9783030901899
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (234 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Furedi, Ann, 1960 - The moral case for abortion
DDC:
363.46
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition -- Contents -- A Note on Terminology -- 1 Introduction: Why Abortion Needs a Moral Defence -- 2 Why Abortion Is a Fact of Life -- Women Need Abortion as Birth Control -- Abortion Is Birth Control -- 3 The Case Against Abortion -- The Move from Morals -- 4 The Case Against "The Case Against" -- Making Abortion Reasonable -- Common Ground -- Responding to the "Pro-Life" Challenge -- Not Pro-Abortion or Anti-Life but Pro-Choice -- 5 It Is Human? Do We Care? -- When Does Life Begin … to Matter? -- The Value of Life -- The Specialness of Humans -- Personhood -- 6 Because Women Are People -- 7 Claims of Conscience -- Church and State -- Whose Responsibility? -- Personal Boundaries and Political Lines -- Where Does Conscience Come From? -- Why Conscience Matters -- 8 New Challenges to Choice -- Feminists Against Choice -- A New Anti-choice Opposition -- Why Personal Choice Matters -- Who Decides? -- 9 Self-Determination -- The Essence of Ourselves -- Challenges to Autonomy -- Self or Community? -- 10 The Most Important Freedom -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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