Abortion and social responsibility : depolarizing the debate /
Shrage argues that Roe v Wade's regulatory scheme of a six-month time span for abortion on demand polarized the public and obscured alternatives with potentially broader support. She explores the origins of that scheme, then defends an alternate one--with a time span shorter than 6 months forno...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Studies in feminist philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Shrage argues that Roe v Wade's regulatory scheme of a six-month time span for abortion on demand polarized the public and obscured alternatives with potentially broader support. She explores the origins of that scheme, then defends an alternate one--with a time span shorter than 6 months fornon-therapeutic abortions--that could win broad support needed to make legal abortion services available to all women. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 173 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-169) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423763025 9781423763024 019515309X 9780195153095 1433700387 9781433700385 9780195153088 0195153081 9780199870615 0199870616 9780198034940 0198034946 |