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• Introduction(p. 9)
• Part 1. Abortion: Finding the Issue
• 1. Abortion(p. 19)
• 2. The Bad Old Days(p. 25)
• 3. The Abortion Orphans(p. 32)
• 4. Saving Babies Left to Die: States Providing Safe Landing for Abandoned Infants(p. 34)
• 5. Brief Lives(p. 40)
• 6. Who Will Do Abortions Here?(p. 45)
• Part 2. Abortion and the Constitution
• 7. Roe v. Wade: The 1973 Supreme Court Decision on State Abortion Laws(p. 63)
• 8. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services(p. 73)
• 9. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey(p. 92)
• 10. Don Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska et al., Petitioners v. Leroy Carhart(p. 119)
• 11. Roe v. Wade at Twenty-five: Still Illegitimate(p. 135)
• 12. On the Origins of Privacy(p. 139)
• 13. Religious Liberty and Abortion: Casey as Catch-22(p. 146)
• Part 3. Abortion and Feminism
• 14. Abortion and the Sexual Agenda(p. 167)
• 15. Our Bodies, Our Souls(p. 179)
• Part 4. Abortion and Christianity
• 16. We Must Rescue Them(p. 195)
• 17. A Catholic Theologian at an Abortion Clinic(p. 199)
• 18. Personhood, the Bible, and Abortion(p. 207)
• 19. Christians and Abortion(p. 224)
• 20. Life in the Tragic Dimension: A Sermon on Abortion(p. 231)
• Part 5. Abortion and Moral Philosophy
• 21. A Defense of Abortion(p. 241)
• 22. Nature As Demonic in Thomson's Defense of Abortion(p. 257)
• 23. On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion(p. 272)
• 24. An Appeal for Consistency(p. 280)
• 25. The Fetus and Fundamental Rights(p. 295)
• 26. Why Abortion Is Immoral(p. 309)
• 27. Asymmetric Value and Abortion, with a Reply to Don Marquis(p. 328)
• 28. Abortion and Brain Waves(p. 343)
• Contributors(p. 353)

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School Library Journal Review

YA-Another challenging group of essays on a timely theme. The revised edition contains seven opinions from the 1989 edition as well as new essays that consider many sides of the issue. The selections reflect contemporary concerns of thoughtful men and women in the fields of philosophy, theology, psychotherapy, law, medicine, and journalism. Arranged in five sections that deal with broad aspects of the question, the book succeeds in bringing the issues into focus for meaningful analysis. The writing styles are as diverse as the opinions: the cerebral pro-life discussion of Judge Bork; Anna Quindlen's anguished essay; the sensitive narrative of a visit to an abortion clinic by Catholic theologian Daniel Maguire; and the horrific descriptions of case histories of a psychotherapist and a social worker. Students willing to follow the rigorous arguments in this collection may find their own ideas clarified, strengthened, or changed; or, they may have even more questions than when they began.-Jackie Gropman, Richard Byrd Library, Springfield, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.