| Foreword |
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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Day 1 Roe v. Wade and Other Legal Concerns |
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(a) Docs the Bible prohibit abortions? |
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2 | (1) |
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(b) The thalidomide scare |
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3 | (1) |
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(c) Does Roe v. Wade legalize abortion on demand? |
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4 | (2) |
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(d) Roe v. Wade does not legalize abortion on demand |
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6 | (1) |
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(e) What's included in the right to privacy? |
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7 | (1) |
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(f) Planned Parenthood v. Casey asserts viability as the point where abortion can be restricted |
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8 | (1) |
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(g) Many states do restrict abortion access at some point in pregnancy |
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9 | (1) |
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(h) New York's Reproductive Health Act. |
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9 | (1) |
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(i) Doe v. Bolton, and how to define maternal health |
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10 | (1) |
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(j) Making abortions illegal won't stop them |
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11 | (1) |
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(k) The effectiveness of laws prohibiting abortion |
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12 | (1) |
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(l) Women sentenced to prison over a miscarriage and the case of Savita Halappanavar |
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12 | (1) |
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(m) The role of contraception in reducing abortion rates |
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13 | (1) |
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(n) The role of sex education in reducing abortion rates |
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13 | (1) |
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(o) Do our tax dollars fund abortion? |
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14 | (1) |
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(p) Personhood Amendments |
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15 | (1) |
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(q) Embryos and fertility treatments |
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16 | (1) |
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(r) Killing abortion doctors |
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17 | (1) |
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(s) Does abortion harm women? |
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18 | (8) |
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Day 2 Abortions as Murder, Fetal Personhood, and Arguments from Potential |
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26 | (25) |
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(a) Viability and quickening as times when abortion becomes murder |
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26 | (1) |
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(b) Abortion kills an innocent child |
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27 | (1) |
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(c) Can "innocence" apply to embryos? |
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28 | (1) |
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(d) Is killing all human life wrong? |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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(f) Is genetic humanity sufficient for personhood? |
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30 | (1) |
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(g) The cognitive traits of personhood |
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30 | (1) |
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(h) Persons who are not genetically human |
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31 | (1) |
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(i) Genetic humans who are not persons |
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32 | (1) |
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(j) Embryos and fetuses lack all the mental traits of personhood |
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33 | (1) |
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(k) The relationship between rights and desires |
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34 | (1) |
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(l) Do infants have a right to life? |
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35 | (1) |
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(m) The argument from potential |
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36 | (1) |
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(n) What does "potential" mean? |
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36 | (4) |
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(o) Do potential persons have the same rights as actual persons? |
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40 | (2) |
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(p) The right to life protects persons from harm |
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42 | (1) |
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(q) Sentience as a prerequisite for being able to be harmed |
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42 | (1) |
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(r) Harm as the setting back of interests |
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43 | (1) |
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(s) Must you be sentient in order to have interests? |
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44 | (1) |
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(t) When do fetuses become sentient? |
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45 | (6) |
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Day 3 Fetal "Future-Like-Ours" Arguments, and Considerations of Personal Identity |
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51 | (27) |
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(a) Sanctity of life arguments |
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51 | (2) |
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(b) Sanctity of life arguments and euthanasia |
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53 | (2) |
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(c) Abortion and religious diversity |
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55 | (1) |
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(d) Future-like-ours arguments |
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56 | (2) |
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(e) Future-like-ours arguments, contraception, and arguments from potential |
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58 | (1) |
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(f) Alternative accounts of the wrongness of killing |
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59 | (3) |
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(g) Do fetuses have futures of value? |
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62 | (1) |
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(h) Is the fetus the same being that will later enjoy a future? |
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63 | (2) |
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(i) A fertilized egg is not an individual human being |
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65 | (1) |
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(j) Personal identity consists in the persistence of a human organism |
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65 | (1) |
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(k) Personal identity consists in the continuation of mental contents |
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66 | (1) |
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(l) Personal identity consists in the continuation of a conscious mind |
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67 | (3) |
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(m) Does death harm a fetus to the same degree as it harms a person? |
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70 | (8) |
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Day 4 The Bodily Autonomy Argument |
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78 | (30) |
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(a) Abortion and the security persons |
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78 | (1) |
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(b) Is the right to life a positive right? |
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79 | (3) |
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(c) The violinist example |
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82 | (1) |
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(d) Is the violinist example too weird? |
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83 | (2) |
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(e) The violinist example's relevance to abortion |
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85 | (3) |
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(f) Kant's principle of humanity and its relation to pregnancy and abortion |
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88 | (3) |
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(g) The violinist example as analogous to rape |
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91 | (1) |
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(h) The responsibility objection |
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91 | (3) |
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(i) The tacit consent objection |
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94 | (2) |
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(j) The special relationship objection |
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96 | (2) |
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(k) The killing vs. letting die distinction |
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98 | (2) |
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(l) Restricting abortion after viability |
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100 | (2) |
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(m) Can we compel using someone's body to save another? |
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102 | (1) |
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(n) The compensation objection |
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103 | (5) |
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Day 5 Abortion in Hard Cases |
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108 | (31) |
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(a) Pro-choice and feminism |
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109 | (1) |
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(b) Early feminism and pro-life advocacy |
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109 | (1) |
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(c) Does abortion allow for the sexual exploitation of women? |
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110 | (1) |
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(d) Abortion and pro-family support policies |
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110 | (1) |
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(e) Areas where pro-choice and pro-life feminists agree |
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111 | (2) |
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(f) Abortion due to Sex-selection |
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113 | (2) |
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(g) Virtue theory and abortion |
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115 | (3) |
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118 | (1) |
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(i) Abortion for non-viable pregnancies |
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119 | (2) |
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(j) Abortion due to fetal disabilities |
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121 | (1) |
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(k) Is there a duty to have the "best" child? |
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122 | (1) |
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(l) Subjective stories of families with disabled children |
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122 | (1) |
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(m) The exprcssivist argument against selective abortion |
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123 | (1) |
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(n) The parental attitude argument against selective abortion |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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126 | (3) |
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(q) Men and grief over abortion |
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129 | (1) |
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(r) Can a man force a woman to gestate? |
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129 | (1) |
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(s) Abortion in cases of rape |
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130 | (3) |
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133 | (6) |
| Annotated Bibliography |
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139 | (22) |
| Index |
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