The Ethics of Abortion

by BAIRD, ROBERT M.ROSENBAUM, STUART E.

• ISBN13: 9781573928762
• ISBN10: 1573928763
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

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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