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The Moral Question of Abortion
Dr. Stephen Schwarz (An online book)
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This is truly an encyclopedic work, spanning as it does the spectrum of the abortion dilemma, from the anatomy and physiology of the unborn child to the complex legal and ethical questions involved in the wanton destruction of that child. It will serve as an invaluable guide through the moral thickets of the abortion question. |
http://www.ohiolife.org/mqa/toc.asp |
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Moral Dilemmas of Feminism Prostitution, Adultery, and Abortion
by Laurie Shrage
Sharge explores the moral pemises of feminist sexual politics, focusing in particular on the emotive issues of abortion, prostitution and adultery, in order to develop an interpretative and pluralist approach to feminist ethics.
http://www.routledge-ny.com/books.cfm?isbn=0415905516 |
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Abortion is Wrong
The Ethical Spectacle, May 1995, http://www.spectacle.org
I think the real argument is where the state regulation protective of fetal life should begin. Abortion is an unnatural act and must be regulated severely. Fetal Development. If abortion were murder, the rights of a woman would not be paramount; but since a fetus is not a person, abortion cannot be murder.
http://www.spectacle.org/595/abort.html |
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The Religious Right Wing
The Ethical Spectacle, Feb 1997, http://www.spectacle.org.
by Fred Fariss
There is a need to get the whole story about the religious right-wing in their position on abortion and the pro-life stance. The focus of their emphasis on the pro-life position is a very narrow view. The far-reaching implications in their stance, is what they do not openly discuss, is their total belief about human life. When one looks at the whole picture, there are contradictions, absurdities, irrationalities and insensitivities toward the human condition.
http://www.spectacle.org/297/fairiss.html |
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Abortion
Judith Jarvis Thomson, published in the Summer 1995 issue of Boston Review
On December 30, 1994, an opponent of abortion opened fire at two Brookline clinics, killing two people and injuring five others. He then went south to spray twenty rounds of ammunition into a clinic in Norfolk, Virginia. That episode was only the most extreme in a series of recent attacks on abortion providers. In the two-year period ending in December 1994, five people were murdered and at least nine wounded in similar assaults.
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR20.3/thomson.html |
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PHILOSOPHERS ON ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE
Frank Bouchier-Hayes is a member of the Philosophy Department, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland.
"Abortion raises subtle problems for private conscience, public policy, and constitutional law. Most of these problems are essentially philosophical, requiring a degree of clarity about basic concepts that is seldom achieved in legislative debates and letters to newspapers" (Feinberg 1984: 1). This quote is taken from The Problem of Abortion, an important anthology of articles for anyone with an interest in this particular moral issue. In this paper, I intend to examine the views of two leading philosophical figures in the abortion debate. The emergence of abortion as an ethical issue went hand in hand with the introduction of practical ethics in the 1960s.
http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol2/bh.html |
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Abortion
Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, California
Abortion is an issue that evokes, on all sides, very strong feelings
and judgments and very heated recriminations. The most radical formulation
of the anti-abortion or "pro-life" side of the debate views abortion
as the murder of unborn children, and so as the equivalent of out
and out infanticide, making the legal use of abortion since Roe v.
Wade, at a rate of around 1.5 million a year in the United States,
into a holocaust of the innocent fully comparable to the Nazi genocide
against the Jews. Radical "pro-life" activists who blockade abortion
clinics (or who even commit terrorist acts of vandalism, arson, and
murder) see what they do as what "good Germans" didn't do in the face
of Hitler's atrocities, or what John Brown did do in his attempt at
Harper's Ferry to free the slaves through mass rebellion. While John
Brown was regarded as a dangerous and treasonous fanatic during his
lifetime, Union armies later marched through the South singing the
song "John Brown's Body," whose tune Julia Ward Howe borrowed for
the great "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Anti-abortionists thus feel
that they would be similarly vindicated and honored by history [0].
http://www.friesian.com/abortion.htm |
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Against the Sanctity of Life
Peter Suber, Department of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374.
Modern life-prolonging technologies have sharpened some ancient dilemmas on the value of life. Our ability to sustain vital signs virtually as long as we wish pointedly raises the question whether we value life for its electrical efflorescence or for qualities that might be enjoyed by the person whose life is in jeopardy. In fact, it raises the question what the life is that we value. Is it biology or biography?
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/sanctity.htm |
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Abortion (Politically Correct Death)
by Francis J. Beckwith
Part I: The
Appeal to Pity
Part II. Arguments
from Pity, Tolerance, and ad hominem
Part III. Is
the Unborn Less than Human?
Part IV. When
Does a Human Become a Person?
When the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Missouri was within its constitutional rights to enact abortion restrictions (Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 1989), it moved the debate from the realm of the federal judiciary into the lap of the legislative process. It is now possible for other states to enact similar and even more restrictive legislation. This, of course, makes a candidate's stance on abortion rights much more important in the electoral process, since his or her view on abortion can now make a practical difference in terms of what laws will be enacted if he or she is elected. And, since our judiciary has become more conservative, it is apparent that the abortion rights movement has the most to lose if the issue returns to the courts. Thus the arguments for abortion rights are being put forth in the political arena with greater vigor and hotter rhetoric than ever before.
http://www.gurlpages.com/lacewing/part1.html |
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Breaking Through the Stereotypes
Sidney Callahan, Daniel Callahan, Bioethics, Thomas A Shannon, ed. (3rd ed.) 47-55 (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1987)
What are the underlying differences fueling the abortion debate? The Callahans shift their focus from the more public and surface debate between religious traditionalists and secular modernists to the worldviews of women who are able to sustain an on-going, empathic dialogue across their differences regarding abortion. They discover "liberal" pro-life and "communitarian" pro-choice positions which arc towards a middle-ground of agreements and differences: this middle-ground, in turn, points towards a possible resolution of the abortion debate in a pluralistic, civil society.
The Callahans themselves mirror this debate in their own marriage: Danial is "pro-choice," while Sidney is "pro-life."
Breaking Through the Stereotypes |
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Ethics Update - Abortion
by Dr. Lawrence M. Hinman, University of San Diego
The Web contains a wide range of helpful resources relating to abortion.
These include court
decisions, legislation,
basic
documents, and news
updates.
http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Abortion/index.html |
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Statistical information on attitudes toward abortion
by Michael C. Kearl of Trinity Univesity
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death-5.html#eu |
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