Abortion in Perspective
Subtitle: The Rose Palace or the Fiery Dragon
By: [by] Donald DeMarco, Foreward by Marshall McLuhan, Illustrated by William Kurelek
Edition: 1st Edition Paperback
Publisher: Hiltz and Hayes Publishing Co.
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Cincinnati, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Abortion; Medical ethics; Induced Abortion; Popular Works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. The force of philosophy : 1. What is the role of philosophy in the abortion debate? The relevance of philosophy; title: 2. What are the philosophies behind the pro-abortion movement? The philosophical roots in western culture for the pro-abortion stand; title: 3. The United States Supreme Court Ruling: Roe vs. Wade, January 22, 1973, Abortion reform: Democracy or authoritarianism?; title: 4. Is the pro-abortionist the realist and the anti-abortionist the idealist? Abortion and the realist; title: 5. Is modern man losing his reverence for life? Does wonder ever cease?; title: 6. Should civil laws concerning abortion allow maximum leeway for the exercise of private conscience? Conscience and civil laws; title: II. Whose child is this? The nature of the foetus and the question of his rights : 7. What is the biological evidence? The merchants of Calumny; title: 8. Along with the trees and the stars, does the foetus have a right to be here? The right to be born; title: 9. What are the natural causes that bear upon the formation and development of the foetus and what moral implications do they carry? The foetus: his humanity and his rights; title: 10. What are society's responsibilities to pregnant women and their developing unborn? Life and liberty: smoke and revolution; title: 11. Why do some pro-abortionists feel that the foetus's being unwanted should override his being human? "All's right with the world"; title: 12. Whose child is this? Does the foetus belong to his mother, his father, society, or himself? The answer lies in the form of a paradox: The polies of the paradox: Speakers for stereophonic thought; title: III. Restoring missing values: the real values that have been ignored, obscured, or misplaced in the attempt to justify abortion : 13. Care; title: The primacy of care; title: 14. Personal love; title: Is mankind an object of love?; title: 15. Faith and the moral imagination; title: Rape and abortion: the loss of faith; the death of the moral imagination; title: 16. The right to one's future; title: Time on my hands; title: 17. The acceptance of natural human limitation; title: Freedom as a one-eyed Jack; title: 18. Involvement with one's neighbor; title: The bland Samaritan; title: IV. Glimpses of the transcendent: The transcendent implications of conception, pregnancy, and birth : 19. The union, peace, beginning, and hope represented by pregnancy; title: Pregnancy: the peace movement without peer; title: 20. Is abortion chosen for love or pity for the unborn? Abortion: love or pity?; title: 21. Legal abortion includes the legality of putting an end to the human race; title: Humanicide as a viable alternative; title: 22. The logical and symbolic involvement of Christ in every act of abortion; title: Abortion, Christianity, decide; title: 23. "The birth of children is the death of parents"; title: Birth and death: the rose palace and the fiery dragon; title: 24. The woman's fear of not having control over her own body; title: Me and my shadow; title: V. The climate of culture: the climate of contemporary culture which has helped to breed and foster the pro-abortion mentality : 25. Is contemporary culture replacing the need to love with the desire for affluence? Modern fastidiousness: has it made love obsolete?; title: 26. Are there any compelling or even legitimate reasons left to have a baby? Why have a baby, anyway?; title: 27. Is the foetus merely a population statistic? The playboy and his mechanical bride: the sterile couple; title: 28. Abortion as a means of building a utopian society ; Society as an art form; title: 29. What contemporary culture commands people to prize ; The new Ten Commandments; title: 30. How the abortion mentality logically and existentially leads to euthanasia ; Diary of an expectant mother; title: VI. A strategy in review: a critical analysis of the pro-abortion strategy : 31. The pro-abortionists' mentality and the plot to kill Caesar; title: Parallels in treachery; title: 32. How to distinguish propaganda from dialogue when reviewing pro- and anti-abortion thinking; title: Propaganda, dialogue, and abortion; title: 33. Why the expression "Every child should be wanted" is more harmful than helpful, more illusory than enlightening; title: Avoiding unwanted pregnancies and eliminating unwanted children through the magic of the slogan; title: 34. The slogan begins where thinking leaves off; title: slogans, sloganeers, and sloganeering; title: 35. Five steps in the developing prejudice against the unborn; title: a progress profile: from prejudice to genocide through violence; title: 36. The misuse of words as a technique to obscure the reality of an abortion; title: unidentified flying words; title: VII. A twist of irony: incongruities in pro-abortion thinking : 37. How an illogical structure and a rhetorical content can 'prove' just about anything; title: a radical liberal's nostrum for justifying just about anything; title: 38. A new, flexible Hippocratic oath geared to satisfy everyone; title: updating the Hippocratic oath; title: 39. How the reasons for abortion may be extended to justify infanticide; title: The society for a human continuance; title: 40. The incongruity of a pro-abortion philosophy in the context of the sinking Titanic; title: "A night to remember": a modernized fable; title: 41. Can any of us be safe from the devastating implications of pro-abortion thinking? A brief report concerning life on the blue planet; title: 42. The pro-abortion liberationist absurdity of trying to out-do God: liberation.