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Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics Lens*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Susan Sherwin
Susan Sherwin
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Dalhousie University
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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.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 30 , Issue 3: Applied Ethics , Summer 1991 , pp. 327 - 342
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1991

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