A Defense of Abortion

The most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published.

Zusammenfassung
David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. This major book will be especially helpful to those teaching applied ethics and bioethics in philosophy or in law and medicine and to general readers for whom abortion remains a high-profile issue.

Inhalt

1. Framing the debate; 2. The conception criterion; 3. Post-conception criteria; 4. The good Samaritan argument; 5. Non-rights-based arguments.