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Abortion poses a crucial and vexing social issue, squarely because it poses an even more crucial and vexing moral issue. In this paper I shall approach abortion as a moral question, letting social, political and legal thinkers draw their own conclusions as they may.
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Lycan, W.G. (1985). Abortion and the Civil Rights of Machines. In: Potter, N.T., Timmons, M. (eds) Morality and Universality. Theory and Decision Library, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5285-0_7
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