Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought Karen Houle LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder •NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2014byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataAvailable ISBN978-0-7391-3671-3(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-0-7391-3673-7(electronic) TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ...dedicatedtoourdeterminateandindeterminatekin. Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 ApproachingPhenomenaviaDescriptiveMethods 23 2 AbortionasDossier:AMappingExercise 49 3 Ethics,Accountability,Critique 105 4 EthicalImagesofThought 139 5 AbortionandtheEthicalLaborsofMourningandListening 181 A(Tentative)Conclusion 227 MedicalAppendixes 233 Bibliography 243 Index 259 AbouttheAuthor 261 vii
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