The Ethics of Abortion
by BAIRD, ROBERT M.ROSENBAUM, STUART E.Edition: 3rd
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): Prometheus Books
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Summary
Comprehensive and balanced, this new third edition again makes available the most useful writing on the controversial abortion issue. Twenty-four essays and four excerpts from landmark Supreme Court decisions -- including eleven new outstanding contributions -- cover the history of abortion in the pre-Roe period; creative responses to the problem of abandoned infants; abortion in relation to the Constitution, feminism, and Christianity; and fundamental moral issues surrounding this polarising controversy. Contributors include Joan C. Callahan, Sidney Callahan, Gregg Easterbrook, Harry J Gensler, Rick Hampson, Jack Hitt, Miriam Jordan, Gary Leber, Daniel C. Maguire, Don Marquis, Kathryn E May, Michael W McConnell, Ellen Messer, Anna Quindlen, Roger A Paynter, Jeffrey H. Reiman, Richard Selzer, Richard Schoenig, Paul D Simmons, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Mary Anne Warren, John T Wilcox, Naomi Wolf, and Melvin L Wulf.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 9 |
| Abortion: Finding the Issue | |
| Abortion | p. 19 |
| The Bad Old Days | p. 25 |
| The Abortion Orphans | p. 32 |
| Saving Babies Left to Die: States Providing Safe Landing for Abandoned Infants | p. 34 |
| Brief Lives | p. 40 |
| Who Will Do Abortions Here? | p. 45 |
| Abortion and the Constitution | |
| Roe v. Wade: The 1973 Supreme Court Decision on State Abortion Laws | p. 63 |
| Webster v. Reproductive Health Services | p. 73 |
| Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey | p. 92 |
| Don Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska et al., Petitioners v. Leroy Carhart | p. 119 |
| Roe v. Wade at Twenty-five: Still Illegitimate | p. 135 |
| On the Origins of Privacy | p. 139 |
| Religious Liberty and Abortion: Casey as Catch-22 | p. 146 |
| Abortion and Feminism | |
| Abortion and the Sexual Agenda | p. 167 |
| Our Bodies, Our Souls | p. 179 |
| Abortion and Christianity | |
| We Must Rescue Them | p. 195 |
| A Catholic Theologian at an Abortion Clinic | p. 199 |
| Personhood, the Bible, and Abortion | p. 207 |
| Christians and Abortion | p. 224 |
| Life in the Tragic Dimension: A Sermon on Abortion | p. 231 |
| Abortion and Moral Philosophy | |
| A Defense of Abortion | p. 241 |
| Nature As Demonic in Thomson's Defense of Abortion | p. 257 |
| On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | p. 272 |
| An Appeal for Consistency | p. 280 |
| The Fetus and Fundamental Rights | p. 295 |
| Why Abortion Is Immoral | p. 309 |
| Asymmetric Value and Abortion, with a Reply to Don Marquis | p. 328 |
| Abortion and Brain Waves | p. 343 |
| Contributors | p. 353 |
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