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Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy.
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1994
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Moral ReasoningMoral PhilosophyLawReproductive EthicsPersonhoodFrances KammApplied EthicReproductive EthicAbortion RightsLegal EthicsAbortion EthicsHuman RightsMoral StandingLegal PhilosophyMidwiferyNew ArgumentHumanitiesAbortionMoral ConflictNormative EthicMedicineMetaphysics Of Morality
This book presents a new argument attacking the view that if the foetus has the moral standing of a person it has a right to life and abortion is impermissible. Most discussion of abortion has assumed that this premise is correct, and so has focused on the question of the personhood of the foetus. Frances Kamm, however, argues that abortion can be moral even if the foetus is indeed a person.