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Life in the balance : exploring the abortion controversy / Robert N. Wennberg.

By: Material type: TextGrand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Comapany, ©1985Description: 184 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0802800610
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ 767.15 W487 1985
Contents:
1. PROCEDURAL COMMENTS -- Moral theories and their implications -- A word about bad consequences -- Moral authority -- Baptizing moral conclusions -- Theological themes as moral illuminators -- A word about terminology and emotions -- 2. POSING THE PROBLEM -- The risks -- The reasons -- 1. The medical ground -- 2. The psychiatric ground -- 3. The criminal ground -- 4. The eugenic ground -- 5. The socio-economic ground -- 6. The ground of extreme youth -- 7. The personal ground -- The fetus -- Fetal brain development -- 3. PERSONS, SOULS, AND FETUSES -- The person: a strict construction -- The image of God: a strict construction -- The image of God: nature or status? -- The moral and the natural image -- The image of God: Summary -- Fetises and souls -- Abortion and the immortality of the soul -- 4. ESTABLISHNG A RIGHT TO LIFE: DECISIVE MOMENT THEORIES -- Decisive moment theory one: conception -- The argument from geneti endowment -- The appeal to potentiality -- The benefit of the doubt argument -- The biblical argument -- The argument from exodus 21:22-25 -- The appeal to the continuum -- Difficulties with arguments for a right to life from conception -- Decisive moment theory two: implantation -- Decisive moment theory three: the appearance of an external human form -- Decisive moment theory four: the point of viability -- Decisive moment theory five: the beginning of brain development -- Decisive moment theory six: the attainment of sentience -- Decisive moemnt theory seven: birth -- 5. THE ACTUALITY PRINCIPLE -- Infanticide and abortion -- The evil of infanticide: accounts by Benn, Warren, and Engelhardt -- The intrinsic ecil of infanticide -- The argument that infants have no right to life -- 6. THE POTENTIALITY PRINCIPLE -- Response one: affirming an infant right to life -- Response two: affirming a modified infant right to life -- Response three: affirming the intrinsic wrongness of killing infants -- The severely retarded and the overflow principle -- The beginning of right to life -- 1. Birth -- 2. Viability -- 3. Sentience -- 4. Human form -- 5. Brain function -- 6. Implantation -- 7. Conception -- The gradualist variant of the potentiality principle -- Problems with the gradualist theory -- 1. Devine's first criticism -- 2. Devine's second criticism -- 3. Devine's third criticism -- 7. THE SPECIES PRINCIPLE -- Defining "Human speicies" -- Two versions of the species principle -- Version One: Homo sapiens as bearers of the divine image -- Version Two: Homo sapiends as recipients of divine valuation -- Advantages of the potentiality principle: making a choice -- 8. MAKING A DECISION -- Three relevant considerations -- 1. Degree of the woman's responsibility for the pregnancy -- 2. Extent of the burden the woman will have to bear as a result of her pregnancy -- 3. Degree of fetal development -- Possible grounds for an abortion -- 1. The life of the mother is at stake -- 2. Pregnancy due to forcible rape -- 3. Extreme youth or mental impairment -- 4. The defective fetus -- 5. Psychiatric, personal, and economic reasons -- A word about burdens -- Excusing but not justifying an abortion -- Moral risk -- The intent of the heart -- A prospective comment -- 9. ABORTION AND THE LAW -- Understanding the case for restrictive abortion legistation -- The right to life vs. the right to bodily self-determination -- The case of the famous violinist -- The need for qualifications -- Abortion and murder -- A finan complication -- A right to the death of the fetus? -- 10. SUMMARY AND REFLECTIONS
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1. PROCEDURAL COMMENTS --
Moral theories and their implications --
A word about bad consequences --
Moral authority --
Baptizing moral conclusions --
Theological themes as moral illuminators --
A word about terminology and emotions --

2. POSING THE PROBLEM --
The risks --
The reasons --
1. The medical ground --
2. The psychiatric ground --
3. The criminal ground --
4. The eugenic ground --
5. The socio-economic ground --
6. The ground of extreme youth --
7. The personal ground --
The fetus --
Fetal brain development --

3. PERSONS, SOULS, AND FETUSES --
The person: a strict construction --
The image of God: a strict construction --
The image of God: nature or status? --
The moral and the natural image --
The image of God: Summary --
Fetises and souls --
Abortion and the immortality of the soul --

4. ESTABLISHNG A RIGHT TO LIFE: DECISIVE MOMENT THEORIES --
Decisive moment theory one: conception --
The argument from geneti endowment --
The appeal to potentiality --
The benefit of the doubt argument --
The biblical argument --
The argument from exodus 21:22-25 --
The appeal to the continuum --
Difficulties with arguments for a right to life from conception --
Decisive moment theory two: implantation --
Decisive moment theory three: the appearance of an external human form --
Decisive moment theory four: the point of viability --
Decisive moment theory five: the beginning of brain development --
Decisive moment theory six: the attainment of sentience --
Decisive moemnt theory seven: birth --

5. THE ACTUALITY PRINCIPLE --
Infanticide and abortion --
The evil of infanticide: accounts by Benn, Warren, and Engelhardt --
The intrinsic ecil of infanticide --
The argument that infants have no right to life --

6. THE POTENTIALITY PRINCIPLE --
Response one: affirming an infant right to life --
Response two: affirming a modified infant right to life --
Response three: affirming the intrinsic wrongness of killing infants --
The severely retarded and the overflow principle --
The beginning of right to life --
1. Birth --
2. Viability --
3. Sentience --
4. Human form --
5. Brain function --
6. Implantation --
7. Conception --
The gradualist variant of the potentiality principle --
Problems with the gradualist theory --
1. Devine's first criticism --
2. Devine's second criticism --
3. Devine's third criticism --

7. THE SPECIES PRINCIPLE --
Defining "Human speicies" --
Two versions of the species principle --
Version One: Homo sapiens as bearers of the divine image --
Version Two: Homo sapiends as recipients of divine valuation --
Advantages of the potentiality principle: making a choice --

8. MAKING A DECISION --
Three relevant considerations --
1. Degree of the woman's responsibility for the pregnancy --
2. Extent of the burden the woman will have to bear as a result
of her pregnancy --
3. Degree of fetal development --

Possible grounds for an abortion --
1. The life of the mother is at stake --
2. Pregnancy due to forcible rape --
3. Extreme youth or mental impairment --
4. The defective fetus --
5. Psychiatric, personal, and economic reasons --

A word about burdens --
Excusing but not justifying an abortion --
Moral risk --
The intent of the heart --
A prospective comment --

9. ABORTION AND THE LAW --
Understanding the case for restrictive abortion legistation --
The right to life vs. the right to bodily self-determination --
The case of the famous violinist --
The need for qualifications --
Abortion and murder --
A finan complication --
A right to the death of the fetus? --

10. SUMMARY AND REFLECTIONS

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