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Abortion Ethics: Rights and Responsibilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Elisabeth Porter
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Abstract

Abortion considerations require deep reflection on law, convention, social mores, religious norms, family contexts, emotions, and relationships. I have three arguments. First, a liberal “right to choose” framework is inadequate because it is based on individualist notions of rights. Second, reproductive freedoms should be extended to all women. Third, abortion ethics involves a dialectical interplay between rights and responsibilities, and between social, cultural, and particular contexts, and is best understood in terms of moral praxis.

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Hypatia , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 66 - 87
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Copyright © 1994 by Hypatia, Inc.

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