Abortion: Understanding Differences

Daniel Callahan

ISBN 10: 1461297036 / ISBN 13: 9781461297031

Editore: Springer US, 2011

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - SIDNEY CALLAHAN AND DANIEL CALLAHAN This book, like many other things to do with abortion, is a product of long controversy. Though carried out with cooperation, it was conceived in conflict. The conflict between the coeditors has per sisted for years-in fact, for at least half of their thirty-year marriage. One, Sidney, is prolife; the other, Daniel, is prochoice. Ever since the topic of abortion became of professional interest to us, in the 1960s, we have disagreed. At one time, while Daniel was writing a book on the subject, Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality (1970), we talked about the subject every day for the four years of the book's gestation. On many occasions during the 1970s, prolife articles writ ten by Sidney were passed out at Daniel's lectures in order to refute his pro choice views. Over the years, every argument, every statistic, every historical example cited in the literature has been discussed by the two of us. As Eliza Doolittle says about 'words' in My Fair Lady, 'There's nota one I haven't heard. ' And yet we still disagree. How can it be, we ask ourselves, that intelligent people of goodwill who know all the same facts and all the same arguments still come down on different sides of the con troversy As we well know, it is possible to agree about many things and have great love and respect for an opponent, and still differ.

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• Titolo: Abortion: Understanding Differences
• Editore: Springer US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1461297036
• ISBN 13: 9781461297031
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 155 A x 20 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 20 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 552 grammi

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SIDNEY CALLAHAN AND DANIEL CALLAHAN This book, like many other things to do with abortion, is a product of long controversy. Though carried out with cooperation, it was conceived in conflict. The conflict between the coeditors has per­ sisted for years-in fact, for at least half of their thirty-year marriage. One, Sidney, is prolife; the other, Daniel, is prochoice. Ever since the topic of abortion became of professional interest to us, in the 1960s, we have disagreed. At one time, while Daniel was writing a book on the subject, Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality (1970), we talked about the subject every day for the four years of the book's gestation. On many occasions during the 1970s, prolife articles writ­ ten by Sidney were passed out at Daniel's lectures in order to refute his pro choice views. Over the years, every argument, every statistic, every historical example cited in the literature has been discussed by the two of us. As Eliza Doolittle says about "words" in My Fair Lady, "There's nota one I haven't heard. " And yet we still disagree. How can it be, we ask ourselves, that intelligent people of goodwill who know all the same facts and all the same arguments still come down on different sides of the con­ troversy? As we well know, it is possible to agree about many things and have great love and respect for an opponent, and still differ.

Contenuti

1. Social Science and Ethical Issues: The Policy Implications of Poll Data on Abortion.- 2. Abortion and the Meaning of Life.- 3. Reflections on Abortion, Values, and the Family.- Commentary to Chapter 3.- 4. A Family Perspective on Abortion.- Commentary to Chapter 4.- 5. Children, Personhood, and a Pluralistic Society.- Commentary to Chapter 5.- 6. More Trouble than They’re Worth? Children and Abortion.- Commentary to Chapter 6.- 7. Abortion and Equality.- Commentary to Chapter 7.- 8. Beneath the Surface of the Abortion Dispute: Are Women Fully Human?.- Commentary to Chapter 8.- 9. Abortion and the Culture: Toward a Feminist Perspective.- Commentary to Chapter 9.- 10. Abortion, Autonomy, and Community.- Commentary to Chapter 10.- 11. Value Choices in Abortion.- Commentary to Chapter 11.- 12. The Abortion Debate: Is Progress Possible?.- Commentary to Chapter 12.