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    Artificial Wombs and Abortion Rights.I. Glenn Cohen - 2017 - Hastings Center Report 47 (4):inside back cover-inside back co.
    In a study published in late April in Nature Communications, the authors were able to sustain 105- to 115-day-old premature lamb fetuses—whose level of development was comparable to that of a twenty-three-week-old human fetus—for four weeks in an artificial womb, enabling the lambs to develop in a way that paralleled age-matched controls. The oldest lamb of the set, more than a year old at the time the paper came out, appeared completely normal. This kind of research brings us one step (...)
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    Abortion Rights: For and Against.Kate Greasley & Christopher Kaczor - 2017 - Cambridge University Press.
    This book features opening arguments followed by two rounds of reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor lay out what they take to be the best case for and against abortion rights. In the ensuing dialogue, they engage with each other's arguments and each responds to criticisms fielded by the other. Their conversational argument explores such fundamental questions as: what gives a person the (...)
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  3. Abortion Rights: Why Conservatives are Wrong.Rem B. Edwards - 1989 - National Forum 69 (4):19-24.
    Conservative opponents of abortion hold that from the moment of conception, developing fetuses have (or may have) full humanity or personhood that gives them a moral standing equal to that of postnatal human beings. To have moral standing is to be a recognized member of the human moral community, perhaps having moral duties to others or rights against them, at least as being the recipient of duties owed by others. Conservatives give neo-conceptuses full moral standing, including a right (...)
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    Abortion—right or wrong?Dorothy Thurtle - 1940 - The Eugenics Review 32 (1):10.
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    Abortion Rights: “Down the Drain”?Thomas H. Murray - 1988 - Hastings Center Report 18 (6):4-4.
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    Abortion Needs or Abortion Rights? Claiming State Accountability for Women’s Reproductive Welfare: Family Planning Association of Northern Ireland v. Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety.Ruth Fletcher - 2005 - Feminist Legal Studies 13 (1):123-134.
    The Family Planning Association Northern Ireland (F.P.A.N.I.) has recently been successful in holding the state accountable for its duty to safeguard women’s reproductive health and welfare, and clarify the circumstances in which abortion is lawful. By demanding that the Minister for Health investigate abortion provision and produce abortion guidance, F.P.A.N.I. hope to improve the quality of abortion services and alleviate the situation of those women who are legally entitled to abortion in Northern Ireland but cannot (...)
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    The Dead Unborn, Postmortem Privacy Cases, and Abortion Rights.Anita L. Allen - 2024 - Hastings Center Report 54 (3):2-2.
    The privacy of the dead is an interesting area of concern for bioethicists. There is a legal doctrine that the dead can't have privacy rights, but also a body of contrary law ascribing privacy rights to the deceased and kin in relation to the deceased. As women's abortion privacy is under assault by American courts and legislatures, the implications of ascribing privacy rights to embryos and fetuses is more important than ever. Caution is called for in (...)
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    Abortion, Rights, and Cabin Cases.William Simkulet - 2022 - The New Bioethics 28 (4):315-326.
    Many people believe the morality of abortion stands or falls on the moral status of the fetus, with abortion opponents arguing fetuses are persons with a right to life. Judith Jarvis Thomson bypasses this debate, arguing that even if we assume fetuses have a right to life, this is not a right to use other people’s bodies. Recently Perry Hendricks attempts to bypass discussion of rights, assuming that if he can show that some people have a right (...)
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    Abortion Rights and the Child Welfare System: How Dobbs Exacerbates Existing Racial Inequities and Further Traumatizes Black Families.Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler - 2023 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 51 (3):575-583.
    This article explores how abortion bans in states with large Black populations will exacerbate existing racial inequities in those states’ child welfare systems.
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  10. A Kantian Defense of Abortion Rights with Respect for Intrauterine Life.Bertha Alvarez Manninen - 2014 - Diametros 39:70-92.
    In this paper, I appeal to two aspects of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy – his metaphysics and ethics – in defense of abortion rights. Many Kantian pro-life philosophers argue that Kant’s second principle formulation of the categorical imperative, which proscribes treating persons as mere means, applies to human embryos and fetuses. Kant is clear, however, that he means his imperatives to apply to persons, individuals of a rational nature. It is important to determine, therefore, whether there is anything in (...)
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  11. The Struggle for Abortion Rights in Canada.H. Morgentaler - 1988 - Free Inquiry 9 (1):25-30.
     
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  12. A short argument against abortion rights.Jack Mulder - 2013 - Think 12 (34):57-68.
    ExtractIn this paper I will put forward a brief argument against abortion rights. The argument concerns itself with the two main ways in which defenders of abortion rights develop their position. The first strategy through which they tend to do this is by arguing against the personhood of the fetus. The second strategy, made famous by Judith Jarvis Thomson, is to argue that, even if the fetus were a person, its right to life would not entail (...)
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  13. Abortion rights and animal rights'.Carol Adams - 1991 - Between the Species 7 (4):181-189.
     
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    Abortion: Rights, Responsibilities, Obligations.Kate Padgett Walsh - 2010 - American Journal of Bioethics 10 (12):63-64.
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    Abortion Rights: For and Against.Aled Jones - 2018 - The New Bioethics 24 (3):270-272.
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    Males and Abortion Rights.Barbara Hall - 2002 - Philosophical Inquiry 24 (1-2):17-28.
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    Republicans on abortion rights.Clement Dore - 2015 - Think 14 (39):9-18.
    The Platform of the U.S. Republican Party in 2012 contains a promise to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe. v. Wade, that laws prohibiting abortion are incompatible with the constitutional right to privacy of pregnant women. The Republican vice presidential nominee, Congressman Paul Ryan, opposes that decision as a matter of conviction. Congressman Ryan says that human life begins at conception, though he adds that abortion should be legal if a woman's pregnancy results from rape or incest, (...)
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  18. Manninen's Defense of Abortion Rights Is Unsuccessful.Don Marquis - 2010 - American Journal of Bioethics 10 (12):56-57.
  19. 'Pro-Choice': Wrong Turn for Abortion Rights?Tom Flynn - 1991 - Free Inquiry 7 (1):6-7.
     
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  20. Thomson's "Equal Reasonableness" Argument for Abortion Rights: A Critique.Francis Beckwith - 2003 - American Journal of Jurisprudence 48:185-198.
     
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    Do Prisoners Have Abortion Rights?Rachel Roth - 2004 - Feminist Studies 30 (2):353-381.
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    Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor, Abortion Rights: For and Against.Melissa Moschella - 2020 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 17 (5):571-574.
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    National Politics/Local Identities: Abortion Rights Activism in Post-Wall Berlin.Andrea Wuerth - 1999 - Feminist Studies 25 (3):601.
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    Triumph and concession? The moral and emotional construction of Ireland's campaign for abortion rights.Aideen Catherine O’Shaughnessy - 2022 - European Journal of Women's Studies 29 (2):233-249.
    In March 2018, the Irish government confirmed that a referendum would be held on 25 May, allowing for the Irish public to vote on the legalisation of abortion. The same month, Together for Yes – the national civil society campaign advocating for a ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum – was launched. This article draws upon findings from 27 in-depth interviews conducted in December 2019 and January 2020 with Irish abortion activists, to explore the moral and emotional construction of (...)
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  25. Rethinking Roe v. Wade: Defending the Abortion Right in the Face of Contemporary Opposition.Bertha Alvarez Manninen - 2010 - American Journal of Bioethics 10 (12):33-46.
    In 2008, many states sought to pass Human Life Amendments, which would extend the definition of personhood to encompass newly fertilized eggs. If such an amendment were to pass, Roe v. Wade, as currently defended by the Supreme Court, may be repealed. Consequently, it is necessary to defend the right to an abortion in a manner that succeeds even if a Human Life Amendment successfully passes. J.J. Thomson's argument in “A Defense of Abortion” successfully achieves this. Her argument (...)
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    A Supportive Yet Critical Response to “Rethinking Roe v. Wade : Defending the Abortion Right in the Face of Contemporary Opposition”.Kurt Liebegott - 2010 - American Journal of Bioethics 10 (12):61-63.
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  27. Autonomy rights and abortion after the point of viability.Kristen Hine - 2021 - Bioethics 35 (8):787-792.
    It has been argued that Thomson's defense of abortion, if successful, implies that abortion is permissible only until the point of viability. After that point, if one wanted to end a pregnancy, one must do so by birthing the fetus through induction or cesarean. In this paper, I argue that Thomson's defense of abortion does, in fact, imply that abortion after the point of viability is sometimes permissible. To show this, I point out that the process (...)
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  28. How Not to Argue for Abortion Rights.Andrew Johnson - 2005 - Free Inquiry 25.
     
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    Ultrasound: A Window to the Womb?: Obstetric Ultrasound and the Abortion Rights Debate.Joanne Boucher - 2004 - Journal of Medical Humanities 25 (1):7-19.
    This paper explores the rhetoric of obstetric ultrasound technology as it relates to the abortion debate, specifically the interpretation given to ultrasound images by opponents of abortion. The tenor of the anti-abortion approach is precisely captured in the videotape, Ultrasound:A Window to the Womb. Aspects of this videotape are analyzed in order to tease out the assumptions about the (female) body and about the access to truth yielded by scientific technology (ultrasound) held by militant opponents of (...). It is argued that the ultrasound images do not offer transparent confirmation of the ontological status of the embryo and fetus. Rather, the window of ultrasound is constructed through a complex combination of visual and verbal devices: ultrasound images, photographic images, verbal argument, and emotional appeal. (shrink)
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  30. Ectogenesis, abortion and a right to the death of the fetus.Joona Räsänen - 2017 - Bioethics 31 (9):697-702.
    Many people believe that the abortion debate will end when at some point in the future it will be possible for fetuses to develop outside the womb. Ectogenesis, as this technology is called, would make possible to reconcile pro-life and pro-choice positions. That is because it is commonly believed that there is no right to the death of the fetus if it can be detached alive and gestated in an artificial womb. Recently Eric Mathison and Jeremy Davis defended this (...)
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  31. Full-Spectrum Reproductive Justice: The Affinity of Abortion Rights and Birth Activism.Jessica Shaw - 2013 - Studies in Social Justice 7 (1):143-159.
    This paper argues that not only is there a relationship between birth activism and abortion activism, but that if empowering women is the goal, the two cannot be separated. By understanding how women's bodies have been controlled and their reproductive lives appropriated, the current pro-choice and birth activist frameworks that are used to advocate for women can no longer be understood to address women’s needs. It is by working through the framework of full-spectrum reproductive justice that women may become (...)
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  32. Public Reason and Abortion: Was Rawls Right After All?Robbie Arrell - 2019 - The Journal of Ethics 23 (1):37-53.
    In ‘Public Reason and Prenatal Moral Status’ (2015), Jeremy Williams argues that the ideal of Rawlsian public reason commits its devotees to the radically permissive view that abortion ought to be available with little or no qualification throughout pregnancy. This is because the only (allegedly) political value that favours protection of the foetus for its own sake—the value of ‘respect for human life’—turns out not to be a political value at all, and so its invocation in support of considerations (...)
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    Substance, rights, value, and abortion.William Simkulet - 2019 - Bioethics 33 (9):1002-1011.
    Most serious contemporary opposition to abortion is grounded on the belief that human fetuses are members of the same moral category as beings like us, and that the loss of any such life is one of the worst possible losses. Substance view theorists oppose abortion for this reason: in their view beings like us are essentially rational substances with inherent moral worth, and those who perform induced abortion fail to recognize this moral worth. In a recent series (...)
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    Abortion and conscientious objection: rethinking conflicting rights in the Mexican context.Gustavo Ortiz-Millán - 2018 - Global Bioethics 29 (1):1-15.
    ABSTRACTSince 2007, when Mexico City decriminalized abortion during the first trimester, a debate has been taking place regarding abortion and the right to conscientious objection. Many people argue that, since the provision of abortions is now a statutory duty of healthcare personnel there can be no place for “conscientious objection.” Others claim that, even if such an objection were to be allowed, it should not be seen as a right, since talk about a right to CO may lead (...)
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  35. Abortion and Fathers' Rights.Steven D. Hales - 1996 - In Robert Almeder & James Humber, Biomedical Ethics Reviews: Reproduction, Technology, and Rights. pp. 101-119.
    Fathers do not have an absolute obligation to provide for the welfare of their children. If mothers have the right to opt out of future duties towards their children by deciding to have an abortion instead, fathers too should be considered to have the right to avoid similar future duties. I also argue that fathers should be granted a mechanism by which they can exercise such a right. The discussion is initially motivated by showing an apparent inconsistency among three (...)
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    Civil rights and the abortion debate.Jennifer McErlean - 2005 - Think 3 (9):27-32.
    Do fetuses have rights, including a right to life?
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    Abortion: The Right to an Argument.Gilbert Meilaender - 1989 - Hastings Center Report 19 (6):13-16.
    Our moral puzzles about abortion will not be resolved by resort to compromise positions and adoption of middle ground, for abortion concerns how we understand ourselves as a people and how we define membership in this community.
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  38. Abortion and Animal Rights - Does Either Topic Lead to the Other?Nathan Nobis - 2016 - What's Wrong? Blog.
    Should people who believe in animal rights think that abortion is wrong? Should pro-lifers accept animal rights? If you think it’s wrong to kill fetuses to end pregnancies, should you also think it’s wrong to kill animals to, say, eat them? If you, say, oppose animal research, should you also oppose abortion? -/- Some argue ‘yes’ and others argue ‘no’ to either or both sets of questions. The correct answer, however, seems to be, ‘it depends’: it (...)
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  39. The right to life and abortion legislation in England and Wales: a proposal for change.Jan Deckers - 2010 - Diametros 26:1-22.
    In England and Wales, there is significant controversy on the law related to abortion. Recent discussions have focussed predominantly on the health professional's right to conscientious objection. This article argues for a comprehensive overhaul of the law from the perspective of an author who adopts the view that all unborn human beings should be granted the prima facie right to life. It is argued that, should the law be modified in accordance with this stance, it need not imply that (...)
     
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    The ethics of abortion: women's rights, human life, and the question of justice.Christopher Kaczor - 2015 - New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
    Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. This updated edition of The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying fetal personhood, including the views of those who defend not only abortion but also post-birth abortion. It also provides several (non-theological) justifications for the conclusion that all human beings, including those in utero, should be respected as persons. This book (...)
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  41. The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice.Christopher Robert Kaczor - 2010 - New York: Routledge.
    Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. _The Ethics of Abortion_ critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying fetal personhood, including the views of those who defend not only abortion but also infanticide. It also provides several justifications for the conclusion that all human beings, including those in utero, should be respected as persons. This book also critiques the view that abortion is (...)
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    Prenatal politics: fetal surgery, abortion and disability rights in the United States.Tanfer Emin Tunc - 2021 - The New Bioethics 27 (4):334-348.
    While fetal surgery—and pregnancy termination as a possible therapeutic alternative—have been examined in a number of studies, very few have addressed the issues and tensions that arise when prenat...
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    Abortion: The husband's constitutional rights.Wesley D. H. Teo - 1975 - Ethics 85 (4):337-342.
  44. Abortion and a Woman's Right to Decide.Alison Jaggar - 1973 - Philosophical Forum 5 (1):347.
  45. Abortion Ethics: Rights and Responsibilities.Elisabeth Porter - 1994 - Hypatia 9 (3):66 - 87.
    Abortion considerations require deep reflection on law, convention, social mores, religious norms, family contexts, emotions, and relationships. I have three arguments. First, a liberal "right to choose" framework is inadequate because it is based on individualist notions of rights. Second, reproductive freedoms should be extended to all women. Third, abortion ethics involves a dialectical interplay between rights and responsibilities, and between social, cultural, and particular contexts, and is best understood in terms of moral praxis.
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  46. Abortion and the Right to Life.Alan H. Goldman - 1979 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 60 (4):402.
     
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    A right to life for the unborn? The current debate on abortion in germany and Norbert Hoerster's legal-philosophical justification for the right to life.Alfred Simon - 2000 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 25 (2):220 – 239.
    Rights to life for unborn humans and to abortion with impunity are incompatible. This observation by the German legal philosopher Norbert Hoerster contains a fundamental criticism of the state regulation on abortion in Germany. The regulation regards abortion as unlawful, but declines to prosecute if the abortion is conducted within the first three months of pregnancy and the pregnant woman received counseling at least three days prior to terminating the pregnancy. In contrast to the German (...)
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  48. Abortion, Personhood, and Moral Rights.Donald Algeo - 1981 - The Monist 64 (4):543-549.
    Defenses of abortion have by and large focussed upon one or the other of two topics: the question of the personhood of the fetus, or the question of the woman’s rights as weighed against those of the fetus. I will criticize one attempt—probably the most widely read, certainly the most widely anthologized—to defend abortion by denying the personhood of the fetus, and conclude that the determination of the personhood of the fetus, or its lack thereof, should await (...)
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    Abortion, Property Rights, and the Welfare State.Adrian Bardon - 1998 - Public Affairs Quarterly 12 (4):369-381.
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    The right to choose to abort an abortion: should pro-choice advocates support abortion pill reversal?Michal Pruski, Dominic Whitehouse & Steven Bow - 2022 - The New Bioethics 28 (3):252-267.
    Abortion pill reversal treatment aims to halt an initiated medical abortion, wherein a pregnant woman takes progesterone after having taken the first of the two consecutive abortion pills, ty...
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