Pro-life, pro-choice
Subtitle: shared values in the abortion debate
By: Bertha Alvarez Manninen
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780826519900; 9780826519917
Subjects: Law and legislation; Abortion
Description: "Debates the pro-choice versus pro-life stance on abortion. Examines the legal status of the fetus in the recent Personhood Amendments in state legislatures and in Supreme Court decisions, and asks whether Roe v. Wade should have focused on the viability of the fetus or on the bodily integrity of the woman"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why Roe v. Wade's argument fails; title: Responsibility and other worries; title: Of women and fetuses: battling the false dichotomy; title: Pro-choice, not pro-abortion: rethinking the pro-choice strategy; title: A pro-choice moral framework; title: Respecting fetal life and pregnant women: building upon shared values; title: The forgotten father: men and abortion.