Defending life : a moral and legal case against abortion choice

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Title:

Defending life : a moral and legal case against abortion choice

Author:

Beckwith, Francis.

ISBN:

9780521691352

9780521870849

Personal Author:

Beckwith, Francis.

Publication Information:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Physical Description:

xv, 296 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Abortion and moral argument -- The Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade, and abortion law -- Abortion, liberalism, and the neutral state -- Science, the unborn, and abortion methods -- Popular arguments : pity, tolerance, and ad hominem -- The nature of humanness and whether the unborn is a moral subject -- Does it really matter whether the unborn is a moral subject? : the case from bodily rights -- Cloning, bioethics, and reproductive liberty -- Conclusion : a case for human inclusiveness.

Subject Term:

Abortion.

Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.

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Defending Life is arguably the most comprehensive defense of the pro-life position on abortion - morally, legally, and politically - that has ever been published in an academic monograph. It offers a detailed and critical analysis of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey as well as arguments by those who defend a Rawlsian case for abortion-choice, such as J. J. Thomson. The author defends the substance view of persons as the view with the most explanatory power. The substance view entails that the unborn is a subject of moral rights from conception. While defending this view, the author responds to the arguments of thinkers such as Boonin, Dworkin, Stretton, Ford and Brody. He also critiques Thomson's famous violinist argument and its revisions by Boonin and McDonagh. Defending Life includes chapters critiquing arguments found in popular politics and the controversy over cloning and stem cell research.