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Abortion: Abortion is the medical or surgical intervention to terminate a pregnancy, usually for personal, health or social reasons. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Peter Singer on Abortion - Dictionary of Arguments
I 306 Abortion/P. Singer: The verdict of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v., Wade is available online. The main points are summarized in J. Feinberg (ed.) Probem of Abortion, Belmont, 1984 I 307 See also Edwin Schur, Crimes Without Victims. NJ 1965 Abortion/Paul Ramsey: Ramsey argues with the uniqueness of the fetus against abortion in: D.H. Labby (ed.) Life or Death: Ethics and Options (London, 1968). See also Don Marquis VsAbortion/MarquisVsAbortion: "Why abortion is immoral“ Journal of Philosophy, 86, (1989), pp. 183-202. NorcrossVsMarquis: in Norcross, „Killing, Abortion and Contraception: A Reply to Marquis“, Journal of Philosophy, 87 (1990), pp. 268-77. See also >Abortion/Judith Thomson._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
SingerP I Peter Singer Practical Ethics (Third Edition) Cambridge 2011 SingerP II P. Singer The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. New Haven 2015 |