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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAbortion
    EditorsBelinda Bennett
    Place of PublicationLondon ; New York
    PublisherRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Group
    Pages119-138
    Number of pages20
    ISBN (Electronic)9781351961257
    ISBN (Print)9780754622383
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

    Publication series

    NameThe International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law
    PublisherRoutledge

    Bibliographical note

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

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