Ethics of Abortion - Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum Klappentext 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 polarizing 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. Zusammenfassung Deals with the controversial abortion issue. This work includes essays and excerpts from landmark Supreme Court decisions! covering the history of abortion in the pre-Roe period; creative responses to the problem of abandoned infants; abortion in relation to Constitution! feminism and Christianity; and moral issues surrounding this controversy.

Product details

• Authors: Robert M. Baird, Robert M. Rosenbaum Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum
• Assisted by: Robert Baird (Editor), Robert M Baird (Editor), Robert M. Baird (Editor), Stuart Rosenbaum (Editor), Stuart E Rosenbaum (Editor), Stuart E. Rosenbaum (Editor)
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9781573928762
• ISBN: 978-1-57392-876-2
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Contemporary Issues; Contemporary Issues (Prometheu; Contemporary Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education