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- Provides readers with up-to-date information on the laws surrounding abortion
- Outlines a new version of the precautionary argument for more restrictive abortion laws in the Western world
- Analyses the feasibility of making abortion laws more restrictive
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book questions how abortion laws can be regulated in a time when abortion rights are still subject to intense debate.
It addresses objections to basing abortion law on considerations of moral risk, presents two anti-abortion arguments – the deprivation argument and the substance view – to demonstrate the risk of permitting abortion, and discusses the moral risk of restricting access to abortion when it may unjustifiably harm women. The author also shows how welfare states can address the negative effects of restrictive abortion laws by preventive, mitigative and compensatory measures.
This is a thought-provoking and challenging book that will be of great interest to those considering abortion laws across the fields of medical ethics, bioethics, moral philosophy, law and politics.
Authors and Affiliations
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Political Science Department, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
About the author
Henrik Friberg-Fernros is Associate Professor at the Political Science Department, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making a Case for Stricter Abortion Laws
Authors: Henrik Friberg-Fernros
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57291-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57290-1Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86123-4Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57291-8Published: 19 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 105
Topics: Bioethics, Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Feminism