Pro-life, pro-choice : shared values in the abortion debate

Manninen, Bertha Alvarez 1977- (Author).

Summary: "Debates the pro-choice versus pro-life stance on abortion. Examines the legal status of the fetus in the recent Personhood Amendments in state legislatures and in Supreme Court decisions, and asks whether Roe v. Wade should have focused on the viability of the fetus or on the bodily integrity of the woman"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780826519900
ISBN: 0826519903
ISBN: 9780826519917
ISBN: 0826519911
ISBN: 9780826519924
Physical Description: print
x, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-221) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Why Roe v. Wade's argument fails -- Responsibility and other worries -- Of women and fetuses: battling the false dichotomy -- Pro-choice, not pro-abortion: rethinking the pro-choice strategy -- A pro-choice moral framework -- Respecting fetal life and pregnant women: building upon shared values -- The forgotten father: men and abortion.