Life in the Balance: Exploring the Abortion Controversy

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1985 - 184 halaman
In this book, Robert N. Wennberg looks at all the major arguments from the whole spectrum of positions on the abortion issue. He does so both earnestly and fairly, taking care to point out that most of the arguments follow soundly from their premises, and that most of the parties to the debate are altruistically motivated. Cutting through the sensationally prejudicial language often used in arguments about abortion, Wennberg clearly lays out what merit the various arguments have individually so readers can compare them sensibly. Writing out of the evangelical Protestant tradition, Wennberg nevertheless looks fairly and with an open mind at all of the arguments. The book will be valuable to anyone who wants a noncrusading presentation of this crucial issue.
 

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Procedural Comments
1
Posing the Problem
19
Persons Souls and Fetuses
31
Establishing a Right to Life Decisive Moment Theories
54
The Actuality Principle
80
The Potentiality Principle
93
The Species Principle
124
Making a Decision
137
Abortion and the Law
151
Summary and Reflections
169
BIBLIOGRAPHY
177
Index
183
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Robert Wennberg (1935-2010) was Professor of Philosophy at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California. His books include God, Humans, and Animals: An Invitation to Enlarge Our Moral Universe; Terminal Choices: Euthanasia, Suicide, and the Right to Die; and Life in the Balance: Exploring the Abortion Controversy.

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