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  1. Section A: Abortion.Deregulating Abortion - 1994 - In Alison M. Jaggar (ed.), Living with contradictions: controversies in feminist social ethics. Boulder: Westview Press. pp. 272.
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  2. Eloise Jones.Abortion Law - 1978 - In John Edward Thomas (ed.), Matters of life and death: crises in bio-medical ethics. Toronto: S. Stevens. pp. 54.
     
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  3. Unborn baby may die after car accident pregnant driver may be paralyzed before most recent times, the report of such an accident might have said that the woman was pregnant, but I doubt that the unborn child would have been categorized as an entity separate from the mother, not to mention that.Kidnapped by Anti-Abortion Vigilantes - forthcoming - Semiotics.
     
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    Vagueness, Values, and the World/Word Wedge.Personhood Humanity & A. Abortion - 1985 - International Philosophical Quarterly 25 (3).
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  5. Even if the fetus is not a person, abortion is immoral: The impairment argument.Perry Hendricks - 2019 - Bioethics 33 (2):245-253.
    Much of the discussion surrounding the ethics of abortion has centered around the notion of personhood. This is because many philosophers hold that the morality of abortion is contingent on whether the fetus is a person - though, of course, some famous philosophers have rejected this thesis (e.g. Judith Thomson and Don Marquis). In this article, I construct a novel argument for the immorality of abortion based on the notion of impairment. This argument does not assume that (...)
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  6. My body, not my choice: against legalised abortion.Perry Hendricks - 2022 - Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (7):456-460.
    It is often assumed that if the fetus is a person, then abortion should be illegal. Thomson1 laid the groundwork to challenge this assumption, and Boonin2 has recently argued that it is false: he argues that abortion should be legal even if the fetus is a person. In this article, I explain both Thomson’s and Boonin’s reason for thinking that abortion should be legal even if the fetus is a person. After this, I show that Thomson’s and (...)
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  7. The Problem of Spontaneous Abortion: Is the Pro-Life Position Morally Monstrous?Bruce P. Blackshaw & Daniel Rodger - 2019 - The New Bioethics 25 (2):103-120.
    A substantial proportion of human embryos spontaneously abort soon after conception, and ethicists have argued this is problematic for the pro-life view that a human embryo has the same moral status as an adult from conception. Firstly, if human embryos are our moral equals, this entails spontaneous abortion is one of humanity’s most important problems, and it is claimed this is absurd, and a reductio of the moral status claim. Secondly, it is claimed that pro-life advocates do not act (...)
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  8. When does “life” begin? When it comes to abortion, it depends on what you mean by "life".Nathan Nobis - 2022 - Salon.
    To many, it seems like the debate of "when life begins" is irresolvable. This is unfortunate since this failure to make progress is largely a result of people not asking what the question means, or clarifying what is being asked, and listening carefully to try to understand the range of answers. -/- As a philosophy professor who teaches logic and critical thinking, I suggest that asking the simple, but powerful, question, "What do you mean?" and seeking to understand different answers (...)
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  9. Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should Be Legal--Even If the Fetus is a Person.David Boonin - 2019 - Oup Usa.
    Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one question: is the fetus a person? In this provocative and important book, David Boonin defends the claim that even if the fetus is a person with the same right to life you and I have, abortion should still be legal, and most current restrictions on abortion should be abolished.
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    Conscientious objection to abortion, the law and its implementation in Victoria, Australia: perspectives of abortion service providers.Lynn Gillam Louise Anne Keogh, Kathleen McNamee Marie Bismark, Christine Bayly Amy Webster & Danielle Newton - 2019 - BMC Medical Ethics 20 (1):11.
    In Victoria, Australia, the law regulating abortion was reformed in 2008, and a clause was introduced requiring doctors with a conscientious objection to abortion to refer women to another provid...
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    Understanding the 'conservative' view on abortion.Dave Wendler - 1999 - Bioethics 13 (1):32–56.
    The philosophical literature would have us believe that the conservative view on abortion is based on the claim that the fetus is a person from the time of conception. Given the widespread acceptance of this analysis, it comes as something of a surprise to learn that it conflicts with a number of major arguments offered in support of the conservative view. I argue, in the present paper, that a careful examination of these inconsistencies establishes that the personhood analysis is (...)
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  12. It’s Complicated: What Our Attitudes toward Pregnancy, Abortion, and Miscarriage Tell Us about the Moral Status of Early Fetuses.K. Lindsey Chambers - 2020 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50 (8):950-965.
    Many accounts of the morality of abortion assume that early fetuses must all have or lack moral status in virtue of developmental features that they share. Our actual attitudes toward early fetuses don’t reflect this all-or-nothing assumption: early fetuses can elicit feelings of joy, love, indifference, or distress. If we start with the assumption that our attitudes toward fetuses reflect a real difference in their moral status, then we need an account of fetal moral status that can explain that (...)
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    The Fallacy of all Person-denying Arguments for Abortion.William Cooney - 1991 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 8 (2):161-165.
    ABSTRACT This article attempts to show that arguments in favour of abortion which deny personhood to the fetus (person‐denying arguments) do not work. Several very common person‐denying arguments for abortion are dealt with, and an analysis is provided of two well known person‐denying arguments; those from the philosophers Mary Ann Warren and Michael Tooley. The result is that these fare no better. The conclusion is that there is a fallacy in person‐denying arguments in general.
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  14. Your Mother Should Know: Pregnancy, the Ethics of Abortion and Knowledge through Acquaintance of Moral Value.Fiona Woollard - 2022 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 103 (3):471-492.
    An important strand in the debate on abortion focuses on the moral status of fetuses. Knowledge of the moral value of fetuses is needed to assess fetuses’ moral status. As Errol Lord argues, acquaintance plays a key role in moral and aesthetic knowledge. Many pregnant persons have acquaintance with their fetus that provides privileged access to knowledge about that fetus’ moral value. This knowledge is (a) very difficult to acquire without being pregnant and (b) relevant for assessing the moral (...)
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    The right to choose to abort an abortion: should pro-choice advocates support abortion pill reversal?Michal Pruski, Dominic Whitehouse & Steven Bow - 2022 - The New Bioethics 28 (3):252-267.
    Abortion pill reversal treatment aims to halt an initiated medical abortion, wherein a pregnant woman takes progesterone after having taken the first of the two consecutive abortion pills, ty...
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  16. Islamic ethics of life: abortion, war, and euthanasia.Jonathan E. Brockopp (ed.) - 2003 - Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.
    o ne -taking -Life ana Oavmg .Life The Islamic Context Jonathan E. Brockopp The great ethicists of the western world, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, and others, ...
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    Hanging On: Reflections on visual reproduction and the UK Abortion Act 1967.Natalie Linda Jones - 2017 - Feminist Legal Studies 25 (3):359-364.
    This is a reflection on the visual installation piece, Hanging On, produced collaboratively for the Feminist Legal Studies ‘At the Kitchen Table’ zine in 2016. The author and co-artist considers the research that informed and helped conceptually drive the aesthetics of the piece, including academic research on abortion within literary aesthetics. How these concepts ‘translated’ into hands-on artistic practice and physical materials is discussed, including the difficulties and knowledge gained from the process. The author finally considers the benefits of (...)
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    " I Give Them What They Want-Either an Orphan or an Abortion".Robert Arp - 2009 - In Sandra Shapshay (ed.), Bioethics at the movies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 15.
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    Fetal tissue transplantation: can it be morally insulated from abortion?C. Strong - 1991 - Journal of Medical Ethics 17 (2):70-76.
    Ethical controversy over transplantation of human fetal tissue has arisen because the source of tissue is induced abortions. Opposition to such transplants has been based on various arguments, including the following: rightful informed consent cannot be obtained for use of fetal tissue from induced abortions, and fetal tissue transplantation might result in an increase in the number of abortions. These arguments were not accepted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel. The majority opinion of (...)
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    National Politics/Local Identities: Abortion Rights Activism in Post-Wall Berlin.Andrea Wuerth - 1999 - Feminist Studies 25 (3):601.
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    Conceiving of Products and the Products of Conception: Reflections on Commodification, Consumption, ART, and Abortion.Jody Lyneé Madeira - 2015 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 43 (2):293-306.
    Assisted reproductive technologies and abortion prompt serious questions about how we should understand the complex relationship between money, markets, choice, and the care relationship. This essay defines “patient” and “consumer,” and then describes how they are less important than their attributes. Then it describes theories of commodification and consumption in reproductive contexts and their consequences, from compliance and coercion to resistance and creativity. It also examines whether ART and abortion are “markets.” Finally, this essay explores how the attributes (...)
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    An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics: A Reflection on Abortion and Euthanasia.Motsamai Molefe - 2020 - New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan.
    This book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures. The idea of personhood embodies a moral system for evaluating human lives exuding with virtue or ones that are morally excellent. This book argues that this idea of personhood embodies an under-explored conception of dignity, which accounts for it in terms of our capacity for the virtue of sympathy. It then proceeds to apply this personhood-based conception of dignity to bioethical (...)
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  23. Sandra day O'Connor and the justification of abortion.Patricia H. Werhane - 1984 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 5 (3).
    The recent Supreme Court decision upholding Roe v. Wade and in particular, the dissent by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, sheds new light on the issue of abortion. Let us consider any stage of a pregnancy when abortion is medically safe for the mother. If at that stage it is also medically viable to save the fetus, is an abortion performed at that stage of pregnancy morally justifiable? For example, if it is, or becomes, medically safe to perform (...)
     
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    A Critique Of Block On Abortion And Child Abandonment.Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski - 2010 - Libertarian Papers 2:16.
    The present paper offers a critique of Block on the issues of abortion and child abandonment. Block regards aborting a fetus or abandoning a child as an instance of exercising one’s libertarian right of expelling trespassers from one’s private property. I argue that the above reasoning is flawed due to the lack of the appreciation of the fact that if one voluntarily initiates the causal chain which leads to someone else ending up on his property, the latter person cannot (...)
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    Dworkin and Casey on Abortion.Sarah Stroud - 1996 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 25 (2):140-170.
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    Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense?: Abortion, Hell, and Violence Against Abortion Doctors.Stephen Kershnar - 2017 - New York: Routledge.
    This book looks at a family of views involving the pro-life view of abortion and Christianity. These issues are important because major religious branches (for example, Catholicism and some large branches of Evangelicalism) and leading politicians assert, or are committed to, the following: (a) it is permissible to prevent some people from going to hell, (b) abortion prevents some people from going to hell, and (c) abortion is wrong. They also assert, or are committed to, the following: (...)
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  27. Torture Born: Representing Pregnancy and Abortion in Contemporary Survival-Horror.Steve Jones - 2015 - Sexuality and Culture 19 (3):426-443.
    In proportion to the increased emphasis placed on abortion in partisan political debate since the early 2000s, there has been a noticeable upsurge in cultural representations of abortion. This article charts ways in which that increase manifests in contemporary survival-horror. This article contends that numerous contemporary survival-horror films foreground pregnancy. These representations of pregnancy reify the pressures that moralistic, partisan political campaigning places on individuals who consider terminating a pregnancy. These films contribute to public discourse by engaging with (...)
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    Does the English Law on Abortion Affront Human Dignity?Charles Foster - 2016 - The New Bioethics 22 (3):162-184.
    The English law on abortion is examined through four lenses manufactured by the principle of dignity. Those lenses are embodiment, relationality, story and a transactional, rather than an atomistic, approach to the ascertaining of the relevant interests. It is contended that this approach gives more nuanced, humane, intellectually satisfactory and pastorally satisfactory answers than those generated by the existing law. It is further argued that only this dignity-based approach is compatible with that mandated by Article 8 of the ECHR.
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    Response to Hewitt on Abortion.Walter E. Block - 2023 - Studia Humana 12 (4):23-33.
    The defense argument in favor of abortion sees the fetus as an invader, a trespasser, someone against whom violence is justified, since this very young person (the fetus) has initiated violence against his mother. Hewitt [30] rejects this argument. The present paper maintains the justification of this defense argument. My perspective is based on the private property rights of the mother. She owns her person. It is as if her body is her house, and a trespasser has invaded it. (...)
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    Limitations on personhood arguments for abortion and 'after-birth abortion'.Anthony Wrigley - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (5):15-18.
    Two notable limitations exist on the use of personhood arguments in establishing moral status. Firstly, although the attribution of personhood may give us sufficient reason to grant something moral status, it is not a necessary condition. Secondly, even if a person is that which has the ‘highest’ moral status, this does not mean that any interests of a person are justifiable grounds to kill something that has a ‘lower’ moral status. Additional justification is needed to overcome a basic wrongness associated (...)
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  31. Moderate views of abortion.L. W. Sumner - 1997 - Advances in Bioethics 2:203.
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    Women's knowledge of abortion law and availability of services in nepal.Shyam Thapa, Sharad K. Sharma & Naresh Khatiwada - 2013 - Journal of Biosocial Science 46 (2):1-12.
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    Children Consenting to Abortion in New Zealand: An Ethical and Legal Critique.Michael Morrison - 2015 - Asian Bioethics Review 7 (1):26-42.
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    A Note on Abortion and Capital Punishment.Rocco J. Gennaro - 2000 - International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4):491-495.
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    Creation and abortion: a study in moral and legal philosophy.T. Hurka - 1994 - Journal of Medical Ethics 20 (2):121-122.
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    Natural Kinds, Persons, and Abortion.Laura L. Garcia - 2008 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 8 (2):265-273.
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    Liberty, Logic and Abortion.Mark Goldblatt - 2002 - Philosophy Now 36:17-21.
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    The Issue of Abortion in America: An Exploration of Social Controversy.J. Hadley - 1999 - Journal of Medical Ethics 25 (4):355-356.
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  39. Late-vs. early-term abortion: A thomistic analysis.Andrew J. Peach - 2007 - The Thomist 71 (1):113-141.
     
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    The liberal position on abortion and welfare rights.Clifton Perry - 1983 - Metaphilosophy 14 (1):12–18.
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    Melinda A. Roberts , Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons: Finding Middle Ground in Hard Cases . Reviewed by.Christopher A. Pynes - 2012 - Philosophy in Review 32 (3):225-227.
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    The Deliberately Induced Abortion of a Human Pregnancy Is EthicallyJustifiable.Jq‘Frey Reiman - 2014 - In Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in bioethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 25--111.
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  43. Encyclopedia of Bioethics: Abortion II: Contemporary Ethical and Legal Aspects: A. Ethical Perspectives.L. Syd M. Johnson - 2004 - Gale Cengage Learning.
     
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    Introduction of Abortion Technologies: A Quality of Care Management Approach.Forrest C. Greenslade, Judith Winkler & Ann H. Leonard - 1992 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 20 (3):161-168.
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    Trends in legalized abortion in South Australia: 1970–81.Farhat Yusuf & Dora Briggs - 1985 - Journal of Biosocial Science 17 (2):215-221.
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    The discussion of abortion in US political debates: A study in occasioned semantics.Jack Bilmes - 2020 - Discourse Studies 22 (3):291-318.
    This article deals with the discussion of abortion in a number of US presidential and vice-presidential debates, from a scaling perspective. The interest in scales, as constructed and negotiated by participants in the course of interaction, is a component of occasioned semantics. I found that, in the political debates that I examined, there are a number of different scales anchored by the contrast between ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-choice’ positions. These are as follows: Stage of pregnancy, Prescribed action, Special circumstances, Locus (...)
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    The Future of Abortion Law in the United States.Gerard V. Bradley - 2016 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 16 (4):633-653.
    In 1971, Judith Jarvis Thomson published what was then and still often is regarded as a trailblazing philosophical defense of a woman’s right to have a lawful abortion. It is time to revisit Thomson’s paper. The aim here is not to engage Thomson’s pro-choice conclusions, which are indeed mistaken, but to show that her question—to what extent can abortion be morally justified, assuming that it is the deliberate killing of one person by his or her mother—is the question (...)
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    Asymmetrical Relations, Identity and Abortion.Daniel A. Dombrowski - 1992 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 9 (2):161-170.
    ABSTRACT In this article I freely use the thought of Charles Hartshorne to defend the ethical permissibility of abortion in the early stages of pregnancy. In the later stages of pregnancy the fetus has an ethical status similar to that of a sentient yet non‐rational animal, a status which should generate in us considerable ethical respect. The distinctiveness of this Hartshornian approach lies in the effort to bring metaphysics to bear on a controversial issue in applied ethics. In particular, (...)
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    Prenatal diagnosis and female abortion: a case study in medical law and ethics.B. M. Dickens - 1986 - Journal of Medical Ethics 12 (3):143-150.
    Alarm over the prospect that prenatal diagnostic techniques, which permit identification of fetal sex and facilitate abortion of healthy but unwanted female fetuses has led some to urge their outright prohibition. This article argues against that response. Prenatal diagnosis permits timely action to preserve and enhance the life and health of fetuses otherwise endangered, and, by offering assurance of fetal normality, may often encourage continuation of pregnancies otherwise vulnerable to termination. Further, conditions in some societies may sometimes render excusable (...)
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    Recent and possible future trends in abortion.F. Lafitte - 1978 - Journal of Medical Ethics 4 (1):25-29.
    The regularly published abortion statistics are insufficiently detailed to make it easy to assess the significance of increases or decreases in the annual number of abortions. Numbers of abortions are related only to a few broad age groups of the women at risk, the size of those age groups is not normally stated, and the age and marital status groupings employed differ from those used for comparable data about trends in child bearing. By matching demographic data on trends in (...)
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