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E-book Decriminalising Abortion in the UK : What Would It Mean?

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When people talk about the ‘abortion question’, what they generally mean is something like this: how should we balance the protection of unborn human life against the rights and interests of a pregnant woman to control her own body? Possibly, they also have in mind a further important (but analytically distinct) issue: how should law (criminal or otherwise) be deployed to enforce the answer given to the first question?These are important moral and – for some – theological questions. However, this book does not engage directly with either of them. Rather, it aims to clear the waters, allowing them to be discussed in a way that is unmuddied by myths and misconceptions regarding matters of fact. In a debate where seemingly even the most basic empirical claims are disputed, the book offers a clear and succinct account of the relevant evidence. Where does public opinion stand with regard to the permissibility of abortion? What would be the likely impact of decriminalisation on women’s health? Would it remove unnecessary restrictions on best clinical practice resulting in the improvement of services, or would it rather amount to dangerous deregulation, removing essential safeguards against harmful practice? Would unqualified backstreet providers be left at liberty to offer unsafe services? Would it remain possible to punish those who cause women to lose wanted pregnancies through vicious assaults? And what lessons can we learn from the experience of other countries regarding the role played by criminal prohibitions on abortion and the likely impact of their removal?While different people hold profoundly diverging views regarding the morality of abortion, the answers to these kinds of questions should not be a matter of moral disagreement. Rather, each can be answered through reference to robust clinical trials, well conducted observational studies, detailed consideration of demographic data, rigorous opinion polls, and careful analysis of relevant law. In the chapters to follow, the authors take on this work. They navigate a field in which high quality peer- reviewed studies, the findings of expert committees and data obtained from rigorous, representative opinion polls rub shoulders with ideologically driven pseudo- science, misleading lobbying literature, unsubstantiated media reports, personal anecdotes, and opinion data generated by ‘push- polling’. All too frequently in public debate, claims that cite these various sources are wrongly offered up as if they have equivalent weight. Here, the authors sift and evaluate the evidence to offer a robust response to each of the questions discussed earlier, relying on the best available evidence. The aim is to ensure that readers are fully informed on these important questions of fact before they reach their own view on the moral issues at the heart of the abortion debate.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

363.46 FOX d

Penerbit

London : Policy Press., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

176 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781447354024

Klasifikasi

363.46

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Abortion

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