Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Unwanted Pregnancy, Mercy, and Solidarity

Over the last half century, United States debates about abortion focused at first on the question whether the fetus is a person with rights and later on whether involuntary conception—for instance, as a consequence of sexual assault—might mitigate a woman's responsibilities toward the fetus she...

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Main Author: Traina, Cristina L. H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 658-681
Further subjects:B Pregnancy
B Pope Francis
B interruptibility
B Catholic Church
B moral failure
B Solidarity
B Mercy
B Abortion
B epikeia
B structural evil
B Lisa Tessman
B Moral Harm
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