Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: Moral Diversity in the Abortion Debate
Kathy Rudy
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.
سال:
1996
ناشر کتب:
Beacon Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
228
ISBN 10:
0807004278
ISBN 13:
9780807004272
فائل:
PDF, 17.18 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1996