The moral question of abortion /

Schwarz, Stephen D.,

The moral question of abortion / Stephen D. Schwarz. - - 289 páginas ; 23 centímetros

Is the being in the womb a real child?: Scientific facts - pictures of the child - continuum of human life - four differences between preborn and postborn persons. Is abortion the killing of this bing?. Methods of abortion - abortion a form of infanticide?. Murder? - abortions resulting in live births. Does abortion cause pain to its victim?: Conditions for feeling pain - medical evidence that a child feels pain. On drawing lines: Birth - viability - quickening - sensitivity to pain - sentience - familiar human form - functioning brain - heart beat - implantation - segmentation. The agnostic Position and the gradualist position: The "time frame" problem - the "no difference" argument. When does human life begin?: conception - fertilization as the radical break - no such thing as a "fertilized Egg" - Objections and replies - is the zygote a person?. Is the being in the womb a person?: Being a person vs. functioning as a person - human is not merely a biological category - the notion of potential person - the achievement view the dignity of the human person. The moral question of abortion. A woman's right over her body?: "No duty to sustain" argument - special relation. between woman and her child - "child as intruder argument - the child's right over his body. A complex issue or a horror?: Photographs, the results of abortion - the abortion holocaust - Lack of perception - The example of slavery - a womas's choice - an abortion pill. Abortion in cases of rape, incest, health and life of the woman?: Abortion for rape: Destruction of the child- claim that rape is different - rape abortion, what it really is - the wedge - abortion for rape - an assault on the woman - a "cure" that aggravates the disease - real problem and its solution - appeal to self - defense. Abortion for the sake of the child, or the family, or society?: Every child a wanted child - abortion and child abuse - abortion and the "defective" child. Should the preborn child be given legal protection?: The fundamental argument - Legal abortion is a fur ther evil - practical necessity of making abortion illegal. Obections and replies: Privacy - right over ones's body - legislating morality - imposing moratity - a religious isue - individual conscience - back - alley abortions - discrimination against the poor. Some lega dimensions: Penalties - exceptions - public funding.



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