Abortion, Killing, and Maternal Moral Authority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12147166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Soran Reader (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 132-149 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2979/hyp.2008.23.1.132 |
| OpenAlex | W4210389012 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
A threat to women is obscured when we treat “abortion-as-evacuation” as equivalent to “abortion-as-killing.” This holds only if evacuating a fetus kills it. As technology advances, the equivalence will fail. Any feminist account of abortion that relies on the equivalence leaves moral room for women to be required to give up their fetuses to others when it fails. So an account of the justification of abortion-as-killing is needed that does not depend on the equivalence
Abortion · Biology · Equivalence (formal languages · Pregnancy · Pure mathematics · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Mathematics · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Reproductive Health and Technologies · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |