Abortion

Media

Aldrich, G., dir.Speak Out: I Had an Abortion. New York: Speakout Productions, 2005. DVD. 55 min.(documentary)

Dwyer, S., and Feinberg, J., eds. The Problem of Abortion, 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1996.

Hare, R. M. “Abortion and the Golden Rule.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 4 (1975): 210–22.

Harman, E. “The Potentiality Problem.” Philosophical Studies 114 (2003): 173–98.

Noonan, J. T. The Morality of Abortion: Legal and Historical Perspectives.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.

Reitman, J., dir.Juno. Beverly Hills, CA: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2008. DVD. 96 min.

Tooley, M., C. Wolf-Devine, P. E. Devine, and A. M. Jaggar. Abortion: Three Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Web Links

Full text and discussion of Roe v. Wade

<http://laws.findlaw.com/us/410/113.html>

Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Library, “Is Abortion Morally Justifiable in a Free Society?”

<http://www.isi.org/lectures/lectures.aspx?SBy=lecture&Sfor=28e773af-4bd2-44da-8b3e-be5570fad64d>

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry, “Abortion”

<http://www.iep.utm.edu/abortion/>

“Reasons Why Women Have Induced Abortions: Evidence from 27 Countries”

<http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2411798.html>

University of San Diego’s Ethics Updates page on Abortion

<http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Applied/Abortion/index.asp>

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