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This book features opening arguments followed by two rounds of reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczor lay out what they take to be the best case for and against abortion rights. In the ensuing dialogue, they engage with each other's arguments and each responds to criticisms fielded by the other. Their conversational argument explores such fundamental questions as: what gives a person the right to life? Is abortion bad for women? What is the difference between abortion and infanticide? Underpinned by philosophical reasoning and methodology, this book provides opposing and clearly structured perspectives on a highly emotive and controversial issue. The result gives readers a window into how moral philosophers argue about the contentious issue of abortion rights, and an in-depth analysis of the compelling arguments on both sides.
Kate Greasley
Kate Greasley is a Lecturer in Law at University College London. She is the author of Arguments about Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law.
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Christopher Kaczor
Christopher Kaczor is the Honorary Professor for the Renewal of Catholic Intellectual Life at Bishop Barron's Word on Fire Institute, a professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, and a visiting fellow at the University of Notre Dame.
Kaczor graduated from the Honors Program at Boston College and earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. A Fulbright Scholar, he completed postdoctoral work as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation German Chancellor Fellow at the University of Cologne. He was appointed a corresponding member of Vatican City's Pontifical Academy for Life, a fellow of the Center for Christian Thought at Biola University, and a William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.
Kaczor, the winner of a John Templeton Foundation grant, has published more than 120 scholarly articles and book chapters. An award-winning author of seventeen books, Kaczor has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, National Review, NPR, BBC, EWTN, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, MSNBC, TEDx, The Today Show, and The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.
Kaczor lives with his wife in Los Angeles, California.
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