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050	0	0	_aK5181 _b.G74 2017
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100	1		_aGreasley, Kate, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aArguments about abortion : _bPersonhood, morality, and law / _cKate Greasley, Lecturer in Law, University College London.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2017.
300			_aix, 269 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.
505	0		_aWhat should abortion argument be about? -- Gestation as good samaritanism -- Abortion as justified homicide -- Analogical arguments and sex equality -- Personhood thresholds, arbitrariness, and 'punctualism' -- Dualism, substantial identity, and the precautionary principle -- Gradualism and human embodiment -- Human equality and the significance of birth -- Regulating abortion -- Selective abortion : sex and disability -- Matters of conscience.
520	8		_aDoes the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law which permits late abortion but not infanticide be morally justified? These are just some of the questions this book sets out to address. With an extended analysis of the moral and legal status of abortion, Kate Greasley offers an alternative account to the reputable arguments of Ronald Dworkin and Judith Jarvis Thomson and instead brings the philosophical notion of 'personhood' to the foreground of this debate. Structured in three parts, the book will (I) consider the relevance of prenatal personhood for the moral and legal evaluation of abortion; (II) trace the key features of the conventional debate about when personhood begins and explore the most prominent issues in abortion ethics literature: the human equality problem and the difference between abortion and infanticide; and (III) examine abortion law and regulation as well as the differing attitudes to selective abortion. The book concludes with a snapshot into the current controversy surrounding the scope of the right to conscientiously object to participation in abortion provision --Flap of cover.
650		0	_aAbortion _xLaw and legislation.
650		0	_aAbortion _xMoral and ethical aspects.
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