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"… But I Could Never Have One": The Abortion Intuition and Moral Luck
In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 41-55
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Abstract
Starting from the intuition, shared by many women, that the legal right to an abortion must be defended but that they themselves could never undergo one, I offer an account of why pregnancy is morally valuable and why, nevertheless, it is often permissible to end one. Developing the idea that human pregnancy centrally involves the activity of calling a fetus into personhood, I argue that the permissibility of stopping this activity hinges on the goodness or badness of one's moral luck.
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Englisch
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
ISSN: 1527-2001
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