Abortion and embodiment

Catriona Mackenzie

Abortion and embodiment

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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
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

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Name	International library of medicine, ethics and law
Publisher	Ashgate

Bibliographical note

Originally published in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70 (2) June, 1992, pp. 136-155.

Reissued 2018 by Routledge.

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