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Sumner on Abortion: Moral Theory and Moral Standing: A Reply to Woods and Soles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

L. W. Sumner
L. W. Sumner
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Extract

I am grateful to John Woods and David Soles for the careful attention they have given to some of the central arguments of Abortion and Moral Theory, though I wish that they had revealed fewer respects in which those arguments were seriously underdeveloped. In what follows I will try to supply some (though not all) of the needed further development. I address the main points at issue in what I conceive to be their order of ascending importance.

Type
Critical Notices/Etudes Critiques
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , Winter 1985 , pp. 691 - 700
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1985

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References

1 Sumner, L. W., Abortion and Moral Theory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), 39CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See Woods, John, Engineered Death: Abortion, Suicide, Euthanasia and Senecide (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1978), chap. 9Google Scholar.

3 In Section 12.