TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwarz,Stephen D.
TI  - The moral question of abortion
SN  - 0829406239
U1  - 363.46 21
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Loyola University Press
KW  - Aborto
KW  - Aspectos morales y éticos
N1  - 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; P202; P201; P163; P162; P161; P160; P148; P147; P146; P145; P144; P143; P142; P141; P140; P139; P138; P137; P136; P135; P134; P133; P129; P128; P127; P120; P119; P118; P116; P115; P114; P110; P109; P108; P104; P103; P102; P99; P98; P97; P96; P95; P93; P90; P89; P88; P83; P82; P62; P59; P58; P57; P51; P49; P48; P47; P29; P24; P20; P19; P17; P15; P14; P12; P10; P09; P08; P07; P06; P05; P04; P01
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