Abortion
Three Perspectives
ISBN13: 9780195308952ISBN10: 0195308956
Paperback, 272 pages
Dec 2008,
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ISBN13: 978-0-19-530895-2ISBN10: 0-19-530895-6
This engaging three-way debate goes beyond the typical liberal vs. conservative arguments for and against abortion.
Table of Contents
PART I.
1. ABORTION: WHY A LIBERAL VIEW IS CORRECT
1. Thinking about the Morality of Abortion and Discussing It with Others
2. A Brief Overview of My Defense of a Liberal Position on Abortion
3. Abortion and the Appeal to Religious Revelation
4. The Appeal to an Immaterial, Rational Mind
5. The Appeal to Psychological Capacities
6. Two Biological Antiabortion Arguments
7. Potentiality Arguments against Abortion
8. The Identity of Persons and Biological Organisms Argument
9. Are Moderate Positions on Abortion Tenable?
10. The Moral Status of Abortion: A Final Summing Up
2. ABORTION: A COMMUNITARIAN PRO-LIFE PERSPECTIVE
1. Where We Are Now
2. Methodology
3. The Prima Facie Case against Abortion
4. The Status of the Unborn
5. The Pregnant Woman
6. Questions of Law
7. Policy Recommendations
8. Role and Limits of Philosophy
9. Conclusion
3. ABORTION RIGHTS AND GENDER JUSTICE WORLDWIDE: AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
1. Introduction
2. Mapping the Philosophical Terrain
3. Liberalism and Feminism: Two Thin Commitments of Political Morality
4. Designing Just Institutions in an Unjust World: Some Methodological Commitments
5. Some Principles of Political Morality Salient to Abortion in the Real World
6. Abortion: Human Rights, Gender Equality, and the Public Good
7. Objections to Abortion Rights
8. Conclusion
PART II.
4. Response to Alison M. Jaggar, Celia Wolf-Devine, and Philip E. Devine
Comments on Alison M. Jaggar's Essay
Reply to Celia Wolf-Devine and Philip E. Devine
1. Species Membership and the Right to Life
2. The "Reductio" Objection, and the "Change-of-Address" Objection
3. Potentialities and the Right to Life
Summing Up
5. Response to Michael Tooley and Alison M. Jaggar
1. Response to Tooley
2. Response to Jaggar
3. A Final Word
6. Response to Michael Tooley, Celia Wolf-Devine, and Philip E. Devine
1. Methodology
2. Political Philosophy
3. Reality
4. Policy
5. Sailing under True Colors
