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• Roberts, Melinda A. - Abortion and the moral significance of merely possible persons finding middle ground in hard cases

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When, if ever, is it morally permissible for a woman to have an abortion? When, if ever, are agents morally obligated to bring new persons into existence—whether by refraining from having an abortion or by conceiving a child? Questions of abortion and procreation provoke debates at the practical level that canseem endless and emotionally fraught. The same questions also raise surprisingly deep issues regarding the very nature and structure of moral law. The goalof Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons is to lay the groundwork for a more productive discussion by first identifying the commonground shared by the relevant parties to the debates—including the common ground we can agree exists between the great normative traditions of consequentialism and deontology. The author then will determine just how far, starting from that practical and theoretical common ground, we may go in resolving hard cases. The strategy here is to work from neutral ground to generate the concreteresults and also to ask parties on both sides of the relevant debates to amend their positions in some ways. The results then achieved, though limited, should be of considerable interest to a wide audience. Explores whether our moralobligation is to make 'happy people,' as Narveson put it, or to make 'people happy' Describes a form of consequentialism tempered by deontological principle Introduces lawyers and philosophers working in applied ethics to the issues in moral theory, population ethics and social choice theory Concludes with concrete results that will be both controversial and (relatively) straightforward, modest and non-doctrinal

   INDICE: From the contents 1 Introduction. 2 The Moral Significance of Merely Possible Persons. 3 McMahan’s Abortion Paradox. 4 Three More Arguments Against Early Abortion. 5 A Variabilist Approach to Abortion. 6 Conclusion.

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Detalles del artículo

• Páginas: 225
• Capítulos: 6
• Editorial: Springer Netherlands
• Idioma: Inglés
• Fecha de Publicación: 01/03/2010
• ISBN: 9789048137923
• Serie: Philosophy and medicine 107
• País de Publicación: Holanda
• Lugar de Publicación: Dordrecht