Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights

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Baker Books, 1993 - Religion - 256 pages
The author explains and responds to ethical and philosophical arguments used to defend a pro-choice position. Key court decisions are also critiqued.

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Contents

Acknowledgments
9
The Possibility of Moral Reasoning
19
Why Abortion on Demand Is Legal in America
29
Copyright

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About the author (1993)

Francis J. Beckwith received a M.A. and PhD. from Fordham University and a M.J.S. from the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis. He is a Professor of philosophy and church-state studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has held visiting full-time academic appointments at Princeton University, University of Notre Dame, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of many books including Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice, Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic, Politics for Christians: Statecraft As Soulcraft, and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith, which won the 2016 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies.

Bibliographic information

TitlePolitically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights
AuthorFrancis Beckwith
Editionreprint
PublisherBaker Books, 1993
ISBN0801010500, 9780801010507
Length256 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Religion / Christian Living / Social Issues
Religion / Christian Living / Women's Interests
Religion / Ethics
Social Science / Abortion & Birth Control
  
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