| Description |
xxvii, 185 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. The Reproduction of America: Understanding Liberalism's View of Abortion -- Ch. 2. The Catholic Construction of Abortion: Double Effect, roportionalism, and Casuistry -- Ch. 3. The Function of Abortion in the Rescue Movement -- Ch. 4. Conflicted over Men, Women, and Sex: Abortion in the Frame of Contemporary Feminisms -- Ch. 5. The Uneasy Marriage between Feminism and "Pro-Choice" -- Ch. 6. Christianity and the Abortion Wars -- Ch. 7. Subjectivity, Fragmentation, and the Law: An Argument for Repeal |
| Summary |
Finally, she offers a provocative alternative that would allow every community involved to more freely develop and express its views about the morality of abortion |
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Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice is a gift to all who want to expand their understanding of the religious, moral, and philosophical aspects of the abortion debate. Ethicist Kathy Rudy examines four systems of belief - Catholicism, evangelical Protestantism, feminism, and classical liberalism as expressed in the medical profession - and reveals the role abortion plays in each. She shows why, in each case, ideas, about abortion are unlikely to change - because they emerge from each community's deeply held values and concerns, which vary from community to community. She demonstrates that constructing the abortion debate as a choice between "pro-life" and "pro-choice" has distorted and misrepresented the ways that many people relate to the issue of abortion, and has obscured the diversity of belief both among and within communities and individuals |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| LC no. |
95047648 |
| ISBN |
080700426X |
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0807004278 (paperback) |
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