EIP6 Abortion

12. Defense of Abortion — Judith Jarvis Thomson

13. On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion — Mary Anne Warren

14. An Argument that Abortion is Wrong — Don Marquis

15. Virtue Theory and Abortion — Rosalind Hursthouse

16. “Public Reason: Post Dobbs" — Leonard Fleck

"Abortion and Birth Control in China." 1995 radio interview with political scientist Weixing Chen. [RealAudio]
Abortion Facts. Who gets an abortion and why. This is a pro-abortion site—feel free to check the sources for each claim.
Discussion of abortion procedures (including partial-birth abortions). Also includes links to religious arguments on both sides of the issue.
Planned Parenthood’s discussions of abortion. Info on procedures, the law, etc.

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). The pivotal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court said that the Bill of Rights established a more general “right to privacy.” This ruling was heavily influenced by a Harvard Law Review article, published some 60 years earlier; the article by Louis Brandeis (later a U.S. Supreme Court justice) can be found here.
Roe v. Wade (1973). The case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the right to abortion was covered by a constitutionally implied “right to privacy.” This decision was influenced not only by the Brandeis article, but also a famous dissent by Oliver Wendell Holmes in Lochner v. New York.
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). Case challenging a Pennsylvania statute requiring a waiting period for all abortions, and parental consent for a minor child to have an abortion.

Canadian Abortion Rights Action League.
Humanae Vitae. The Pope’s statement on birth control and abortion (1968).
National Organization for Women links on abortion rights.
Pro-choice advocacy.

Bermúdez, José Luis. "The Moral Significance of Birth." Ethics (1996).
Marquis, Don. "Why Abortion is Immoral." 1996 radio interview.
Langerak, Ed. "Listening to the Middle: Abortion." [RealAudio]
Schwartz, Steven. The Moral Question of Abortion (Loyola University Press, 1990). Full text of book.
Thomson, Judith Jarvis. "Abortion," The Boston Review (1995). Her more updated thoughts on the justification of abortion. [Scroll down a bit]

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