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A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
The view that abortion should in most or all circumstances be legal generally rests on the claims that (1) women have a right to control what happens in and to their own bodies; that (2) abortion is a just exercise of this right; and that (3) the law should not criminalize just exercises of the right to control one's own body and its life ...
The Playboy Foundation donated $3,500 to her defense fund and Playboy denounced her prosecution. [53] The Boston Women's Abortion Coalition raised money and held a rally where attendees listened to speakers from the Women's National Abortion Action Coalition (WONAAC). [54] Her conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Florida. [45]
This category contains articles about non-fiction printed media (books, academic papers, and articles) dealing with abortion. Pages in category "Non-fiction literature about abortion" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
American Life League was founded on April 1, 1979 [5] [6] by Brown, her husband Paul, and eight other anti-abortion Americans after a schism with the National Right to Life Committee allowing for legal abortion in the case of rape, incest, and health of the mother. Brown reportedly stated in 1981 that the NRLC had been "trying to destroy my ...
The difference was stark, then, on Tuesday night, when Vice President Kamala Harris gave a forceful defense of abortion rights during her presidential debate with Republican Donald Trump. Harris conveyed the dire medical situations women have found themselves in since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion in 2022.
Former First Lady Melania Trump offered a passionate defense of a woman's right to abortion, including in the late stages of pregnancy — a direct contradiction of the views of her husband ...
Activists in the Dominican Republic protested on Wednesday against a bill for a new criminal code that would keep in place the country’s total abortion ban. The Dominican Senate gave initial ...