Abortion: Understanding Differences by Sidney Callahan
SIDNEY CALAHAN AND DANIEL CALAHAN This book, like many other things to do with abortion, is a product of long controversy. Though carried out with cooperation, it was conceived in conflict. The conflict between the coeditors has per- sisted for years-in fact, for at least half of their thirty-year marriage. One, Sidney, is prolife; the other, Daniel, is prochoice. Ever since the topic of abortion became of professional interest to us, in the 1960s, we have disagreed. At one time, while Daniel was writing a book on the subject, Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality (1970), we talked about the subject every day for the four years of the book's gestation. On many occasions during the 1970s, prolife articles writ- ten by Sidney were passed out at Daniel's lectures in order to refute his pro choice views. Over the years, every argument, every statistic, every historical example cited in the literature has been discussed by the two of us. As Eliza Doolittle says about words in My Fair Lady, There's nota one I haven't heard. And yet we still disagree. How can it be, we ask ourselves, that intelligent people of goodwill who know all the same facts and all the same arguments still come down on different sides of the con- troversy? As we well know, it is possible to agree about many things and have great love and respect for an opponent, and still differ.-
The Roots of Ethics
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Darwin, Marx and Freud
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In Search of Equity
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Applying the Humanities
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Ethics Teaching in Higher Education
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Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis
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Representation and Responsibility
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Violence and the Politics of Research
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Ethics in Hard Times
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Mental Retardation and Sterilization
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Who Speaks for the Child?
Daniel Callahan is president emeritus and cofounder of The Hastings Center, which focuses on ethical and policy issues. He has published seventeen volumes, including Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System (2009), Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice (2006); and What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative (2006).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781461297031 |
| ISBN 10 | 1461297036 |
| Title | Abortion: Understanding Differences |
| Author | Sidney Callahan |
| Series | The Hastings Center Series In Ethics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2011-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
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