… This paper argues that the central issue in the abortion debate has not changed since 1967
when the English parliament enacted the Abortion Act. That central issue concerns the moral …

… of great benefit to women and their doctors. The British law, … for abortion at 12 weeks so
that abortion remains available to … these new issues and deciding their relevance to abortion …

… that a more inclusive ethics of abortion is required rather than a new ethics of abortion when
“… Perhaps it is not so much a new ethics of abortion that is required, as a more inclusive one. …

… helpless to decide an ethical question as controversial and far-reaching as abortion.14
Whether … , it is readily apparent at this point that a uniform scheme concerning abortion is highly …

… I believed then and still believe now that no morality is immune from critique. As I show in
this book, any effective morality must be susceptible to reform and revolutionary change. This …

… planning clinics have changed their behaviour preventing women getting abortions. Pre-…
, and new religious and moralising discourses have determined abortion practices in the …

… ethics of abortion. Some antiabortionists will allow that certain abortions, such as abortion
before implantation or abortion … is threatened by a pregnancy or abortion after rape, may be …

… American Puritanism to which Jefferson was immune, if not allergic, has become the new
morality. Dressing itself up in the language of public health, this new morality views the least …

… Although we all have a general idea of what abortion is, how might one define it? … focuses
primarily on the ethics of abortion, it is not without implications for the legality of abortion. In …

… happens in an abortion: “Why should abortion raise any moral issue at all. … Why is abortion
then not like a tonsillectomy? Why should a woman feel any regret after an abortion? Why …