The abortion controversy represents a collision between two irreconcilable conceptions of
human nature and ultimate reality. As the conflict grows, lawyers will be called on to take …

At the end of Part One of this review essay (vol. 7 no. 2 pp. 139-147), I reported that a
constellation of essays in the collection by Garfield and Hennessey constitutes a compelling …

In 1962 the problem of abortion became a nation-wide subject of debate. Mrs. Sherri
Finkbine of Phoenix, Arizona, accidentally took thalidomide tranquilizers early in pregnancy …

Earlier this year the United States Supreme Court reversed their 1973 decision on Roe v
Wade, removing the federal right to abortion. There are a variety of opinion on the subject …

406 JOURNAL OF LAW & RELIGION[Vol. XVI way.(16) 1 Ensuing chapters take the reader
on a fascinating trip through much of the moral and theological history of the twentieth …

“A Defense of Abortion” was initially published in the inaugural issue of Philosophy & Public
Affairs in the fall of 1971. It had an immediate impact on philosophers' discussions of …

This essay examines the complex and contradictory nature of how the issue of abortion is
discussed in the US today. In political debate, on conservative news stations, and outside …

This paper argues that abortion is morally permissible, especially in cases of rape and incest-
related pregnancies, and when the mother's life is threatened. This paper examines …

The pressure of an election year has created for the recent moral literature on abortion a
double shift in context. One movement has been from the discourse of scholarly journals to …