Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics Lens

Bibliographic Data

ID4758705
AuthorsSusan Sherwin (Dalhousie University, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume30
Issue3
Pages327-342
Publication date1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217300011690
PMID11656379
OpenAlexW2072260453
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited16

Abortion has long been a central issue in the arena of applied ethics, but, the distinctive analysis of feminist ethics is generally overlooked in most philosophic discussions. Authors and readers commonly presume a familiarity with the feminist position and equate it with liberal defences of women's right to choose abortion, but, in fact, feminist ethics yields a different analysis of the moral questions surrounding abortion than that usually offered by the more familiar liberal defenders of abortion rights. Most feminists can agree with some of the conclusions that arise from certain non-feminist arguments on abortion, but they often disagree about the way the issues are formulated and the sorts of reasons that are invoked in the mainstream literature

Abortion · Feminism · Feminist ethics · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Human sexuality · Mainstream · Normative ethics · Political science · Sexual ethics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Reproductive Health and Technologies