1st Edition
Agency, Pregnancy and Persons Essays in Defense of Human Life
Foreword
Robert P. George
Introduction
Nicholas Colgrove
Part I. Zygotes, Embryos and Fetuses
1. Is the Human Embryo an Organism?
Maureen L. Condic
2. A Plausible Account of Basic Equality
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
3. Embryonic Persons
Richard Playford
4. Whose Body?
Christopher Tollefsen
5. It is More Difficult to Justify Abortion if Fetuses are Parts of their Mothers
David Hershenov
6. Do Fetuses Have the Same Interests as Their Mothers?
Helen Watt
Part II: The Abortion Debate
7. Hypocrisy, Consistency and Opponents of Abortion
Bruce P. Blackshaw, Nicholas Colgrove and Daniel Rodger
8. Adoption, Abortion and the Demands of Integrity
Kate Finley
9. The Impairment Argument Against Abortion
Perry Hendricks
10. The Artificial Womb and the End of Abortion
Christopher Kaczor
11. The Feminists’ Dilemmas: A Response to Overall’s "Rethinking Abortion, Ectogenesis, and Fetal Death"
Jessalyn A. Bohn
12. Violinists, Burglars, People-Seeds, Samaritans and Reluctant Bone Marrow Donors: Why Do We Need Analogies to Pregnancy in Order to Understand It?
Francis J. Beckwith
Part III: Abortion and Medical Practice
13. False Compassion, True Discrimination: The Practice of Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion
Christopher Ostertag
14. Is Abortion Medically Necessary?
Toni C. Saad
15. Abortion’s Causal Role in Trauma and Suicide
Calum Miller
16. Telemedicine Abortion: Why It Is Not Safe for Women
Calum Miller
Biography
Nicholas Colgrove is a postdoctoral fellow in bioethics and philosophy at Wake Forest University, United States. He has published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Journal of Medicine & Philosophy and HEC Forum.
Bruce P. Blackshaw is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. His research interests in bioethics include reproductive ethics, personal identity and conscientious objection in medicine. He has published extensively in journals such as Bioethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
Daniel Rodger is a Senior Lecturer in Perioperative Practice at London South Bank University, United Kingdom. He is a registered Operating Department Practitioner and co-editor of the Fundamentals of Operating Department Practice, 2nd Edition (2022), published by Cambridge University Press.
