Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!urquhart From: urquhart@utcs.UUCP (Prof. A. Urquhart) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Book on Abortion and Moral Theory Message-ID: <473@utcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 16:58:39 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.473 Posted: Sun Mar 10 16:58:39 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 17:18:32 EST Reply-To: urquhart@utcs.UUCP (Prof. A. Urquhart) Distribution: na Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 19 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