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Beyond pro-life and pro-choice, moral diversity in the abortion debate, Kathy Rudy

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Beyond pro-life and pro-choice, moral diversity in the abortion debate, Kathy Rudy

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-182) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beyond pro-life and pro-choice

Nature of contents

bibliography

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33440243

Responsibility statement

Kathy Rudy

Sub title

moral diversity in the abortion debate

Summary

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. Finally, she offers a provocative alternative that would allow every community involved to more freely develop and express its views about the morality of abortion

Table Of Contents

Mapping the moralities of abortion -- The reproduction of America: Understanding liberalism's view of abortion -- The Catholic construction of abortion -- The function of abortion in the rescue movement -- Conflicted over men, women, and sex -- The limitations of the current debate -- The uneasy marriage between feminism and "pro-choice" -- Christianity and the abortion wars -- Subjectivity, fragmentation, and the law

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