… “Moral” because whether to bring a child into the world is a value-laden decision of … that
abortion is morally good. This view is held by the health-care professionals who provide abortion …

… This article makes the case for seeing abortion as a public good. It does … By providing abortion
the law can end a noncaring … as a moral good. Care should be treasured and valued as a …

… The stories we do tell of abortion are often told to morally recuperate the status of the woman
who has an abortion through a recourse to tragedy. Tragedy frames experiences where …

… Note that just because one has the right to transfer parental obligations does not make it
morally good to do so. However, the right and opportunity to transfer parental obligations to …

… is seriously immoral, because it violates someone’s right to life without good cause. … , is
that abortion is permissible even if we grant that fetuses have a serious moral right to life. …

… the view that abortion is morally impermissible. It … abortion issue in terms of whether abortion
is good for women, whether the human fetus has moral value, or whether abortion is morally …

… belong to the same moral category as beings like us such that they possess a right to life.2
However, there is good reason to think the this right is irrelevant to the abortion debate; Judith …

… “against” abortion are weak: they don’t provide good reasons … there are good positive
reasons to believe that abortion is … who believe that abortion is generally not morally wrong and …

… abortion has centered around the notion of personhood. This is because many philosophers
hold that the morality of abortion … abortion avoids the suffering of childbirth, and thus a good …

This chapter analyzes the contradictions inherent for feminist politics in the views and policies
which define abortion rights in medical terms, particularly in light of the recent rightwing …