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Much like past arguments about stem-cell research, the coming debate over these reproductive genetic technologies (RGTs) will be political and, for many people, religious. In order to understand how the debate will play out in the US, the author conducted a study of the claims ma...de about RGTs by religious people from across the political spectrum.
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By Allen, L.
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This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students prefer single... or mixed gender classes?
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Slack explores the intimate consequences of public action concerning the taking of life, using a theocentric phenomenological approach based on the Abrahamic scriptures, rather than a scientific method with hypotheses, variables, and statistical analysis.
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Abortion rights are a contentious issue in American politics, and the cause of great debate and controversy. This study traces the creation and development of the American pro-choice movement, whose members demand the freedom of choice over these rights.
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Since Roe versus Wade, abortion has been a continually divisive political issue in the United States. This title looks beyond simplistic cultural or religious explanations to find out why abortion politics and policies differ so dramatically in these otherwise similar countries. ...It argues that political institutions are the key.
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New medical technologies, women s willingness to talk online and off, and tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent, Carol Sanger writes, women s decisions about whether to become mothers will be treated... more like those of other adults making significant personal choices.
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Eugenic laws mandating prevented unfit individuals from having children. These laws were grounded in Darwin 's theory of evolution and were eventually legitimized by the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. eugenic legal template was used by Nazi Germany to implement their own eugenic st...erilization program, and through extension medical experiments, practices of euthanasia, and eventually the Final Solution. Dramatic evidence of four similarly legitimized medical experiments in the U.S. following World War II eventually resulted in a thoroughgoing bioethics movement, grounded in principles of autonomy, beneficence, and justice.
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This title features a debate between four noted philosophers - Michael Tooley, Celia Wolf-Devine, Philip E. Devine, and Alison M. Jaggar - presenting different perspectives on one of the most socially and politically argued issues of the past 30 years.
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An examination of how the abortion issue is being faced around the world. After a brief historical introduction, it explores the legal statutes pertaining to abortion in selected countries; reports on public attitudes towards abortion; and discusses nation's policies regarding po...pulation control.
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A collection of 92 documents from congressional hearings, US Supreme Court decisions, government reports, biographical accounts and news stories which illustrate the controversial history of abortion in the US. The text focuses on Roe v. Wade in 1973, but also includes cases befo...re and since.
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