LESLIE CANNOLD is a researcher and journalist currently working on a Ph.D. at the Department of Early Childhood Studies at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Master of Bioethics from the Centre of Human Bioethics at Monash University and has published in a variety of popular magazines and academic journals. She has two children. RENE DENFELD is author of The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order (1995).
"If you have any opinions about abortion, here's a book that will
make you think harder about it."--Chicago Tribune
"Claiming that in the minds of women facing the decision, abortion
is less about abstract rights and the power to control one's own
body than the awesome responsibility of motherhood and the quality
of life awaiting the unborn child, Cannold attempts to turn the
prochoice position away from its fundamental focus on abstract
rights and toward a focus that encompasses the moral and ethical
considerations taking place during the decision-making
process."--Choice
"If you have any opinions about abortion, here's a book that will
make you think harder about it."--Chicago Tribune
"Constructs a new ethics of abortion based on how women actually
decide whether or not to become a mother. There's nothing cavalier
or casual about most women's decision to have an abortion, nor are
most women thinking about their 'rights' when they make this
decision . . . Cannold argues that feminists must abandon the
sterile rhetoric of rights, instead basing their defense of
abortion rights on the nuanced, practical calculus women actually
apply in making these moral decisions."--Booklist
"Leslie Cannold breaks through the all too predictable forms the
abortion debate has taken and shows that in focusing on the
question of a woman's rights to control her own body and a fetus's
right to life, we have neglected the issue of motherhood and a
woman's responsibility for her child. To introduce a new set of
ethical issues into such a longstanding controversy is a remarkable
achievement."--Peter Singer, Princeton University
""Leslie Cannold breaks through the all too predictable forms the
abortion debate has taken and shows that in focusing on the
question of a woman's rights to control her own body and a fetus's
right to life, we have neglected the issue of motherhood and a
woman's responsibility for her child. To introduce a new set of
ethical issues into such a longstanding controversy is a remarkable
achievement.""--Peter Singer, Princeton University
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