Abortion and the moral significance of merely possible persons : finding middle ground in hard cases /

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Author / Creator:	Roberts, Melinda A., 1954-
Imprint:	Heidelberg ; New York : Springer Verlag, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 189 p.) : ill.
Language:	English
Series:	Philosophy and medicine ; v. 107 Philosophy and medicine ; v. 107.
Subject:	Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects. Abortion, Induced -- ethics. Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8894764

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ISBN:	9789048137923 9048137926
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book has two main goals. The first is to give an account, called Variablism, of the moral significance of merely possible persons -- persons who, relative to a particular circumstance, or possible future or world, could but in fact never do exist. The second is to use Variablism to illuminate abortion. ... Variablism supports the argument that the early abortion is ordinarily permissible when it is what the woman wants. ... In contrast, the late abortion is ordinarily subject to a different analysis. For the loss incurred in that case has full moral significance, according to Variablism, since it is incurred at a world where the person who incurs it does or will exist."--P. [4] of cover.
Other form:	Print version: Roberts, Melinda A., 1954- Abortion and the moral significance of merely possible persons. Heidelberg ; New York : Springer Verlag, 2010 9789048137916 9048137918

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