Table of Contents

1. Framing the debate; 2. The conception criterion; 3. Post-conception criteria; 4. The good Samaritan argument; 5. Non-rights-based arguments.

Promotional Information

The most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published.

Reviews

'Boonin gives a persuasive interpretation and developments of Judith Jarvis Thompson's good-samaritan argument. He dispatches with great authority Don Marquis's future-like-ours argument. This original and carefully argued book will revitalize the abortion controversy.' Bonnie Steinbock, State University of New York, Albany 'I have never read a better examination of all the arguments that have been raised against abortion. Nor have I read a better series of counter arguments against each of these arguments.' Rosemarie Tong, University of North Carolina, Charlotte