Title: No Higher Court
First published: 1995
Description: This book traces the roots of the contemporary abortion debate in the tradition of existential philosophy of the Sartrian type by investigating the work of four feminist writers on abortion - each with a specific focus: Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Daly, Carol Gilligan, and Beverly Wildung Harrison.

Beauvoir provides a feminist epistemology crucial to the abortion idea; Daly adds a dualist metaphysics to Beauvoir's theory of feminist knowledge; Gilligan provides the support of developmental psychology to the abortion project; and Harrison furnishes a theological undergirding to support the abortion edifice. Finally, No Higher Court attempts to envisage a pro-life feminism that is able to provide a "new world for women without abortion as its linchpin and bedrock."
Subjects: Abortion, Catholic Church, Feminism, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Abortion, Pro-choice movement, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Abortion, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Infrastructure, SOCIAL SCIENCE, General, Schwangerschaftsabbruch, Feministische Theologie, Abortion, moral and ethical aspects, Abortion, religious aspects, catholic church, Avortement, Aspect moral, Aspect religieux, Église catholique, Mouvement pour la libéralisation de l'avortement, Féminisme
LC classification: HQ767.15 .K66 1995