Abortion: Three Perspectives

PART I . ABORTION: WHY A LIBERAL VIEW IS CORRECT MICHAEL TOOLEY 1. Thinking about the Morality of Abortion, and Discussing It with Others 2. A Brief Overview of My Defense of a Liberal Position on Abortion 3. Abortion and the Appeal to Religious Revelation 4. The Appeal to an Immaterial, Rational Mind 5. The Appeal to Psychological Capacities 6. Two Biological Anti-Abortion Arguments 7. Potentiality Arguments against Abortion 8. The Identity of Persons and Biological Organisms Argument 9. Are Moderate Positions on Abortion Tenable? 10. The Moral Status of Abortion: A Final Summing Up ABORTION: A COMMUNITARIAN PRO-LIFE PERSPECTIVE CELIA WOLF-DEVINE AND PHILIP E. DEVINE 1. . Where We Are Now 2. Methodology 3. The Prima Facie Case Against Abortion 4. . The Status of the Unborn 5. . The Pregnant Woman 6. . Questions of Law 7. Policy Recommendations 8. . Role and Limits of Philosophy 9. Conclusion ABORTION RIGHTS AND GENDER JUSTICE WORLDWIDE: AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ALISON M. JAGGAR 1. Introduction 2. Mapping the philosophical terrain 3. Liberalism and feminism: two thin commitments of political morality 4. Designing just institutions in an unjust world: some methodological commitments 5. Some principles of political morality salient to abortion in the real world 6. Abortion: human rights, gender equality, and the public good 7. Objections to abortion rights 8. Conclusion PART II. RESPONSE TO ALISON M. JAGGAR, CELIA WOLF-DEVINE, AND PHILIP E. DEVINE MICHAEL TOOLEY COMMENTS ON ALISON M. JAGGAR'S ESSAY REPLY TO CELIA WOLF-DEVINE AND PHILIP E. DEVINE 1. Species Membership and the Right to Life 2. The 'Reductio' Objection, and the 'Change-of-Address' Objection 3. Potentialities and the Right to Life SUMMING UP RESPONSE TO MICHAEL TOOLEY AND ALISON M. JAGGAR CELIA WOLF-DEVINE AND PHILIP E. DEVINE 1. Response to Tooley 2. Response to Jaggar 3. A Final Word RESPONSE TO MICHAEL TOOLEY, CELIA WOLF-DEVINE, AND PHILIP E. DEVINE ALISON M. JAGGAR 1. Methodology 2. Political philosophy 3. . Reality 4. Policy 5. Sailing under true colors