Abortion

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Explores the complex issues of personhood, prenatal life and reproductive rights, international perspectives on the regulation of abortion, health professionals and the provision of abortion services, and prenatal diagnosis and abortion. Belinda Bennett is from The University of Sydney, Australia.

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Full title :Abortion / edited by Belinda Bennett.

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Publication Date:©2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate/Dartmouth
Place of Publication:Aldershot, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004.

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Description:1 online resource (xvii, 566 pages .)

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ISBN:9781315263502, 1315263505
oclc:on1100472166
LC Classification:HQ767.15
Dewey Decimal:179.7/6

pt. I. Personhood, prenatal life and reproductive rights. Is there a 'new ethics of abortion'? / Raanan Gillon ; A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson ; The rights and wrongs of abortion: a reply to Judith Thomson / John Finnis ; A defense of 'A defense of abortion': on the responsibility objection to Thomson's argument / David Boonin ; Thomson's violinist and conjoined twins / Kenneth Einar Himma ; The moral significance of birth / Mary Anne Warren ; Abortion and embodiment / Catriona Mackenzie ; Fetal images: the power of visual culture in the politics of reproduction / Rosalind Pollack Petchesky ; More than 'a woman's right to choose'? / Susan Himmelweit ; Reflections on sex equality under law / Catherine A. MacKinnon ; Prenatal invasions and interventions: what's wrong with fetal rights / Janet Gallagher -- pt. II. Regulating abortion: international perspectives. The criminal sanction as it relates to human reproduction: the genesis of the statutory prohibition of abortion / Shelley Gavigan ; Abortion laws: comparative and feminist perspectives in Australia, England and the United States / Kerry Petersen ; Unenumerated rights: whether and how Roe should be overruled / …

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Abortion -- Law and legislation Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects Abortion, Induced -- ethics Abortion, Induced -- legislation & juri… Avortement -- Aspect moral Beginning of Human Life -- ethics Diagnostics prénatals Personhood Prenatal Diagnosis