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From: urquhart@utcs.UUCP (Prof. A. Urquhart)
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Subject: Book on Abortion and Moral Theory
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Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 16:58:39 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 10 16:58:39 1985
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I have been reading net.abortion for a few weeks now and
I think both pro-life and pro-choice supporters would profit
from reading:
		Abortion and Moral Theory by
		L.W. Sumner
		Princeton University Press (1981)

Sumner's book is clear, well argued and settles many questions
definitively. He discusses the 'liberal view' (every woman has
a right to her body; a fetus has no moral standing) and the
'conservative view' (that any fetus has a right to life) and
suggests a third way (that somewhere between conception and birth
the fetus aquires a moral standing). He also discusses Utilitarian
and Rights theories in the context of the abortion issue.
I would welcome a discussion of his views.

Andre Vellino
University of Toronto
General Purpose Unix