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Title: Abortion Controversy: 25 Years After Roe vs. Wade, A Reader by Louis P. Pojman, Francis Beckwith ISBN: 0-534-55764-3 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 13 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $62.95 |
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Rating: 5
Summary: Essential reading for those interested in the debate.
Comment: "The Abortion Controversy" (second edition) is a superb anthology in which all the major viewpoints on abortion are well represented.
Highlights include Michael Tooley's latest formulation of his argument against foetal personhood, Judith Jarvis Thomson's classic "A Defense of Abortion", David Boonin-Vail's brilliant 1997 defense of what he calls the "Responsibility Objection" to Thomson's argument, and Keith Pavlischek's interesting 1998 critique of Thomson and Boonin-Vail. Pavlischek essentially admits that Boonin-Vail's arguments succeed, but points out (correctly, I think) that those arguments entail that if a woman becomes pregnant to a man who wishes to play no part in the child's life, then that man, the father, is not morally obliged to pay child-support to the mother. Pavlischek thinks that many pro-choicers would find this implication unacceptable. I would add that on the other hand, many pro-choicers would regard this implication as perfectly just, so that Boonin-Vail's defense of Thomson is (for them at least) ultima facie sound.
These are just some of the interesting issues covered in the book; there are many more. Since no other anthology is as wide-ranging, up-to-date and authoritative as this one, "The Abortion Controversy" is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the philosophical debate over abortion.
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Title: Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) by N. E. H. Hull, Peter Charles Hoffer ISBN: 0700611436 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Facts of Life: Science and the Abortion Controversy by Harold J. Morowitz, James S. Trefil ISBN: 0195090462 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000 by Rickie Solinger, Patricia Anderson, Marie Bass ISBN: 0520209524 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 by Leslie J. Reagan ISBN: 0520216571 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.15 |
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