Main description:

This book provides extensive and critical engagement with some of the most recent and compelling arguments favoring abortion choice. It features original essays from leading and emerging philosophers, bioethicists and medical professionals that present philosophically sophisticated and novel arguments against abortion choice.

Contents:

Foreword

Robert P. George

Introduction

Nicholas Colgrove

Part I. Zygotes, Embryos and Fetuses

1. Is the Human Embryo an Organism?

Maureen L. Condic

2. A Plausible Account of Basic Equality

Henrik Friberg-Fernros

3. Embryonic Persons

Richard Playford

4. Whose Body?

Christopher Tollefsen

5. It is More Difficult to Justify Abortion if Fetuses are Parts of their Mothers

David Hershenov

6. Do Fetuses Have the Same Interests as Their Mothers?

Helen Watt

Part II: The Abortion Debate

7. Hypocrisy, Consistency and Opponents of Abortion

Bruce P. Blackshaw, Nicholas Colgrove and Daniel Rodger

8. Adoption, Abortion and the Demands of Integrity

Kate Finley

9. The Impairment Argument Against Abortion

Perry Hendricks

10. The Artificial Womb and the End of Abortion

Christopher Kaczor

11. The Feminists' Dilemmas: A Response to Overall's "Rethinking Abortion, Ectogenesis, and Fetal Death"

Jessalyn A. Bohn

12. Violinists, Burglars, People-Seeds, Samaritans and Reluctant Bone Marrow Donors: Why Do We Need Analogies to Pregnancy in Order to Understand It?

Francis J. Beckwith

Part III: Abortion and Medical Practice

13. False Compassion, True Discrimination: The Practice of Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion

Christopher Ostertag

14. Is Abortion Medically Necessary?

Toni C. Saad

15. Abortion's Causal Role in Trauma and Suicide

Calum Miller

16. Telemedicine Abortion: Why It Is Not Safe for Women

Calum Miller