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Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion”
This famous monumental defense of abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson predates the Roe v. Wade decision by almost two years. In this article submitted to Philosophy & Public Affairs (Vol. 1, no. 1 [Fall 1971]), Thomson argues by various analogies that … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion Cases, Abortion Laws, Ethics of Abortion, Family Planning, History of Abortion, Scholarly Reviews, Terms and Definitions, When does Life Begin?
Tagged Autonomy, Defense of Abortion, Ethics, Free-will, Illegal, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Legal, Liberty, Precedent, pro-choice, pro-life, Right to life
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Scholarly Reviews, more on the Way
Nathan Nobis’ Review of Francis Beckwith’s, “Defending Life” (19 May 2011) Frank Beckwith, “Defending Abortion Philosophically: A Review of David Boonin’s A Defense of Abortion” was originall published in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (2006):177–203
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Abortion Statistics
Guttmacher Institute “Women Who Have Abortions” Infographic, 2013 Sources (quoted from http://www.guttmacher.org/media/infographics/US-women-abortions2.html): By age 45 about half of American women will have an unintended pregnancy and nearly 1 in 3 will have an abortion. Sources: Henshaw SK, Unintended pregnancy in the United … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Ethics, guttmacher, infographic, pregnancy, profile, statistics, stats, women
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Kinds of Abortion (without pictures)
Abortion can be categorized in a number of ways, only some of which are useful to the normal sense of “abortion” at issue in current U.S. politics, culture and medicine. We are, of course, talking about human abortion and not … Continue reading
What Is an Abortion? (John D. Ferrer, 6 May 2013)
Abortion is a fact of life, happening naturally across the whole animal kingdom–humans included. Among people these natural abortions are called miscarriages. But that is not the sense debated much in America. The issue at hand is non-natural abortion, also … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, conceptus, definition, embryo, fetus, human, human being, pro-choice, pro-life, zygote
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Abortion History Museum 