Dialogues on the ethics of abortion. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bertha Alvarez Manninen.
• Authors: Manninen, Bertha Alvarez, 1977-
• Contents: Foreword by Laurie Shrage Preface Day 1: Roe v. Wade and other legal concerns; a) Does the Bible prohibit abortions?; b) The thalidomide scare; c) Does Roe v. Wade legalize abortion on demand?; d) Roe v. Wade does not legalize abortion on demand; e) What’s included in the right to privacy?; f) Planned Parenthood v. Casey asserts viability as the point abortions can be restricted; g) Many states do restrict abortion access at some point in pregnancy; h) New York’s Reproductive Health Act; i) Doe v. Bolton and how to define maternal health; j) Making abortions illegal won’t stop them; k) The effectiveness of laws prohibiting abortion; l) Women sentenced to prison over a miscarriage and the case of Savita Halappanavar. ; m) The role of contraception in reducing abortion rates; n) The role of sex education in reducing abortion rates; o) Do our tax dollars fund abortion?; p) Personhood Amendments; q) Embryos and fertility treatments; r) Killing abortion doctors; s) Does abortion harm women? Day 2: Abortion as Murder, Fetal Personhood, and Arguments from Potential ; a) Viability and quickening as times when abortion becomes murder; b) Abortion kills an innocent child; c) Can "innocence" apply to embryos?; d) Is killing all human life wrong?; e) What is a person?; f) Is genetic humanity sufficient for personhood?; g) The cognitive traits of personhood; h) Persons who are not genetically human; i) Genetic humans who are not persons; j) Embryos and fetuses lack all the mental traits of personhood; k) The relationship between rights and desires; l) Do infants have a right to life?; m) The argument from potential; n) What does "potential" mean?; o) Do potential persons have the same rights as actual persons?; p) The right to life protects persons from harm; q) Sentience as a prerequisite for being able to be harmed; r) Harm as the setting back of interests; s) Must you be sentient in order to have interests?; t) When do fetuses become sentient? Day 3: Fetal "Future-Like-Ours" Arguments, and Considerations of Personal Identity; a) Sanctity of life arguments; b) Sanctity of life arguments and euthanasia; c) Abortion and religious diversity; d) Future-like-ours arguments; e) Future-like-ours arguments, contraception, and arguments from potential; f) Alternative accounts of the wrongness of killing; g) Do fetuses have futures of value?; h) Is the fetus the same being that will later enjoy a future?; i) A fertilized egg is not an individual human being; j) Personal identity consists in the persistence of a human organism; k) Personal identity consists in the continuation of mental contents; l) Personal identity consists in the continuation of a conscious mind; m) Does death harm a fetus to the same degree as it harms a person? Day 4: The Bodily Autonomy Argument; a) Abortion and the security of persons; b) Is the right to life a positive right?; c) The violinist example; d) Is the violinist example too weird?; e) The violinist example’s relevance to abortion; f) Kant’s principle of humanity and its relation to pregnancy and abortion; g) The violinist example as analogous to rape; h) The responsibility objection; i) The tacit consent objection; j) The special relationship objection; k) The killing vs. letting die distinction; l) Restricting abortion after viability; m) Can we compel using someone’s body to save another?; n) The compensation objection. Day 5: Abortion in Hard Cases; a) Pro-choice and feminism; b) Early feminism and pro-life advocacy; c) Does abortion allow for the sexual exploitation of women?; d) Abortion and pro-family support policies; e) Areas where pro-choice and pro-life feminists agree; f) Abortion due to sex selection; g) Virtue theory and abortion; h) Later abortions; i) Abortion for non-viable pregnancies; j) Abortion due to fetal disabilities; k) Is there a duty to have the "best" child?; l) Subjective stories of families with disabled children; m) The expressivist argument against selective abortion. ; n) The parental argument against selective abortion; o) Fathers and abortion; p) The right of refusal; q) Men and grief over abortion; r) Can a man force a woman to gestate?; s) Abortion in cases of rape; t) Final thoughts. Annotated Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 179.76; Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects; Imaginary conversations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000587296; 9781000587289; 9781003109457
• Related ISBNs: 9780367624385; 9780367616564
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