Beating Hearts : : Abortion and Animal Rights / / Michael Dorf, Sherry Colb.

How can someone who condemns hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation also favor legal abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? The authors of Beating Hearts aim to reconcile this apparent conflict and examine the surprisingly similar strategic and tactical question...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Ethics
  • 1. Sentience Or Species?
  • 2. The Necessity Defense
  • 3. Reproductive Servitude
  • 4. Death Versus Suffering
  • Part II. Movements
  • 5. Strategy
  • 6. Graphic Images
  • 7. Violence
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index