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 polarising controversy. The 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.
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Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum are professors of philosophy at Baylor University and editors of the Contemporary Issues series.
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The Best of Four,
This review is from: The Ethics of Abortion : Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice (Contemporary Issues) (Paperback)
I have read 4 books on abortion so far. This one is the best. Don't bother to read the other 2 reviews prior to mine. They don't say anything about this book at all. (One just talking about Mary aborting Jesus. The other about how he got the wrong book.) This is a challenging read, but much of it will surprise you. The last essay actually gives a possible compromise. Here is the other book I liked a lot: When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 The author in When Abortion is pro-choice, so you will have to live with that if you are not. However, it is highly researched and has won a number of awards. Her point of view does not make the facts any less true.
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Tough choice!,
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This review is from: The Ethics of Abortion : Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice (Contemporary Issues) (Paperback)
Should a woman be allowed to have an abortion? or to take birth-control pills, which do essentially the same thing, only sooner? In _The Ethics of Abortion_, we hear from both sides--four writers arguing against abortion, and seven in favor, not counting the mothers of Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush, whose opinion was evidently not consulted. (Besides, it's too late.)
For the answer to the question, "Should Abortion be re-criminalized," don't bother to ask a Republican politician--those fellas will say anything just to get elected ("Life starts at the moment of conception," and blah-blah-blah, e.g., John McCain); but do they ever actually do anything to overthrow Roe v. Wade, or to outlaw the pill, or to prosecute briefly-pregnant female liberals for murder? Don't count on it. The very best way to solve this ethical dilemma is not to argue with one another; but rather, to ask, "WWTVMD?" (i.e., What would the Virgin Mary Do?" On 21 March, 1 BCE, came a day that forever altered the course of cosmic and human history: "Conception Day." That's when the Son of God and the holy Ghost of God came down from Heaven together - the Ghost to impregnate the Virgin Mary, and the Son (Jesus), to become her precious little fetus. Born in Bethlehem on Christmas morning, the Son of God remained on the planet for the next thirty years, preaching hellfire and performing wonders. At age 30, after an especially difficult weekend in Jerusalem, he said goodbye to his disciples and returned home, ascending skyward in a cumulus cloud, not to be seen again until the 21st century and the end of the world. Today, any fourteen-year old unmarried Jewish girl, upon learning she was pregnant, would sneak into a clinic and demand to have an abortion. If Mary had committed that sin, nipping her pregnancy in the bud, the Son of God would have been bounced safely back to Heaven, sparing him a lot of earthly suffering - but it would have cost humanity the greatest gift God ever gave to the world, which is the gift of potential forgiveness for sins if you just meet certain conditions. The whole Christian religion could have been snuffed out before it began! Which, in the view of many, is a strong argument against abortion. (Don't look at me: I'm "the devil," a feminist, and pro-choice.)
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Supreme Court, District Court, United States, Court of Appeals, New York, First Amendment, Good Samaritan, Henry Fonda, Catholic Church, Planned Parenthood, Roman Catholic, Bill of Rights, Thomson's Defense, Reproductive Health Services, Society of Music Lovers, Don Marquis, Missouri Act, Operation Rescue, Federal Constitution, Harvard University Press, Joel Feinberg, Mary Anne Warren, Minimally Decent Samaritan, New Jersey, The Silent Scream New!
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For almost thirty years the issue of abortion has grown increasingly difficult. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, District Court, United States, Court of Appeals, New York, First Amendment, Good Samaritan, Henry Fonda, Catholic Church, Planned Parenthood, Roman Catholic, Bill of Rights, Thomson's Defense, Reproductive Health Services, Society of Music Lovers, Don Marquis, Missouri Act, Operation Rescue, Federal Constitution, Harvard University Press, Joel Feinberg, Mary Anne Warren, Minimally Decent Samaritan, New Jersey, The Silent Scream New!
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- Abortion and Infanticide by Michael Tooley on page 293, page 326, and page 327
- The Problem of Abortion by Joel Feinberg on page 308, and page 341
- Abortion and Moral Theory by L. W. Sumner on page 308, and page 326
- Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life by Jeffrey Reiman in Front Matter, and page 328
- The courage to love by William Sloane Coffin on page 237, and page 238
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