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Arguments about Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law

Greasley, K; (2017) Arguments about Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law. [Book]. (1st ed.). Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

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Abstract

Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law of abortion give an answer to the question about exactly when personhood begins? Can a law which permits late abortion but not infanticide be morally justified? These are just some of the questions this book sets out to address. An extended analysis of the moral and legal status of abortion, the book offers an account of abortion which keeps philosophical disagreement about ‘personhood’ at the centre of the debate. Structured in three parts the book considers the relevance of prenatal personhood for the moral and legal evaluation of abortion; traces the key features of the conventional debate about when personhood begins; and explores the most prominent current problems in abortion ethics literature, including the human equality problem and the difference between abortion and infanticide. It examines approaches abortion law and regulation as well as the differing attitudes to selective abortion on grounds of sex and fetal disability. The book concludes with a snapshot into the current controversy surrounding the scope of the right to conscientiously object to participation in abortion provision.

Type: Book
Title: Arguments about Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law
ISBN: 0198766785
ISBN-13: 9780198766780
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766780.001.0001
Publisher version: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: abortion, moral status, late abortion, infanticide, Ronald Dworkin, Judith Jarvis Thomson, personhood, prenatal, selective abortion, conscientious objection to abortion
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1543316
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