Abortion

9	"A Defense of Abortion" Judith Jarvis Thomson	click on an author's name to go to her/his web page (if available)
10	"On The Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" Mary Ann Warren
11	"An Argument that Abortion is Wrong" Don Marquis
12	"The moral Permissibility of Abortion" Margaret Olivia Little
13	"Virtue Theory and Abortion" Rosalind Hursthouse

Information on abortion

"Abortion and Birth Control in China." 1995 Radio Interview with political scientist, Weixing Chen. [RealAudio]
Conservatives and the right to life. Their views on abortion.
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.

Legal Decisions

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). The pivotal case in which the Supreme Court said that the Bill of Rights established a more general "right to privacy."
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.
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."

Popular and religious discussion of the issues

Philosophical essays and interviews

Bermudez, Jose Luis. "The Moral Significance of Birth." Ethics (1996).
Hubin, Donald. "Abortion." Includes a discussion of Roe v. Wade, and the pro-abortion arguments of Judith Jarvis Thomson.
Marquis, Don. University of Kansas. "Why Abortion is Immoral." 1996 radio interview.
Langerak, Ed. "Listening to the Middle: Abortion." [RealAudio]
Steven Schwartz. The Moral Question of Abortion. (Loyola University Press, 1990). Full text of book.
Judith Jarvis Thomson. "Abortion," The Boston Review (1995). Her more updated thoughts on the justification of abortion.

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