Abstract
Feminist perspectives on abortion focus on a fact the moral implications of which are either overlooked or considered unimportant by most other disputants in the debate. This is the fact that a foetus is not a free-floating entity about whom questions of potentiality and personhood arise as though in a vacuum. Rather a foetus is a being whose existence and welfare are biologically and morally inseparable from the woman in whose body it develops. From a feminist perspective the central moral subjects of the abortion question are thus not only, or not primarily, foetuses but women.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Women, medicine, ethics and the law |
| Editors | Susan Sherwin, Barbara Parish |
| Place of Publication | Burlington, VT |
| Publisher | Ashgate |
| Pages | 73-92 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0754620468 |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 |
Publication series
| Name | International library of medicine, ethics and law |
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| Publisher | Ashgate |
Bibliographical note
Originally published in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70 (2) June, 1992, pp. 136-155.Reissued 2018 by Routledge.