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Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality

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Daniel and Sidney Callahan, along with their contributors, have, way
back in the 1980s presented us with the definitive work in all the
abortion debate. If you would understand what the abortion debate is
all about, this book, along with The Facts of Life, by Harold Morowitz
and James Trefil and my book, There is a Bomb in Gilead, are basically
all that you need to read. Understanding Differences is a group of 12
essays, 10 of which are written from either a Pro-Life or a Pro-Choice
perspective -five on either side with the first two written from no
particular political view point. Each of the Pro-Choice or Pro-Life
essays is critiqued at its end by an author from the opposite
perspective and the editors, Daniel and Sidney Callahan writing the
last two essays and critiqueing each others. Daniel Callahan is a
medical ethicist writing from an essential Pro-Choice perspective and
Sidney is a clinical Psychologist writing from a religiously Pro-Life
perspective. They are a married couple who had six children, one of
whom they tragically lost a few years ago. Daniel was born and raised
Catholic and Sidney converted as a young adult. The book is the best
exploration of the differing positions informing the abortion debate
that I have ever read, and as I have been consumed by the issue for
almost twenty years, and was trained in ob/gyn in the uears
immediately preceding the Roe v. Wade era, I believe that I know as
much about the various aspects of the abortion debate as any person
alive. (...)

You need to get it and read it if
you are really interested in the subject and desire to be adequately
informed to debate the issue intelligently from either side, with
yourself or others. You really owe it to yourself to get and read it.
wfh