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Acknowledgments Thanks to John Coggon, Adrian Viens, and Jeremy Williams.
Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
↵i Thanks to Jeremy Williams for the helpful discussions and suggestions. For a detailed critique of Rawlsian public reason and abortion see Jeremy Williams, Public Reason and Prenatal Moral Status. Journal of Ethics, forthcoming. He argues that Rawlsian public reason is far more permissive of abortion than is often presumed.
↵ii As quoted in John H. Richardson “The Abortion Ministry of Dr Willie Parker”. http://www.esquire.com/ features/abortion-ministry-of-dr-willie-parker-0914 (accessed 28 Sep 2014).
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