Abortion Revisited
Toward an Understanding of the Nature of the Woman-Fetus Relationship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14818869 |
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| Authors | Vangie Bergum (University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Pages | 17-26 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phenomenology + Pedagogy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0820-9189 • E-ISSN: 0820-9189 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.29173/pandp15122 |
| OpenAlex | W1517710639 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The abortion debate, as presented by the prolife and prochoice perspectives, should end, as it leads neither to solution nor to compromise. Rather, we need to reconsider how to understand the moral issues involved in this controversy for they touch on how we understand ourselves as a people, how we understand women's experience of pregnancy, and how such understandin g affects what is considered important to us as a community. We need to move away from the "rights" perspective (from both fetal and maternal rights) in order to open other possibilities of understandin g this issue. Ipropose that a more informed under standing of the nature of pregnancy itself can give a way to revisit this difficult and seemingly intractable moral controver sy and begin a more fruitful dialogue
Abortion · Biology · Fetus · Obstetrics · Pregnancy · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies
| Highly cited | No |
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