The Criminalization of Abortion in the West : : Its Origins in Medieval Law /

The Criminalization of Abortion in the West : : Its Origins in Medieval Law / / Wolfgang P. Müller.

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Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite different but interrelated historical trajectories. On one hand, there is the ancient Judeo-Christian condemnation of prenatal homicide as a wrong warranti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Müller, Wolfgang P.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2017
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 chart/graph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Earliest Proponents of Criminalization
  • 2. Early Venues of Criminalization
  • 3. Chief Agents of Criminalization
  • 4. Principal Arguments in Favor of Criminalization
  • 5. Objections to Criminalization
  • 6. Abortion Experts and Expertise
  • 7. Abortion in the Criminal Courts of the Ius Commune
  • 8. Forms of Punishment in the Criminal Courts of the Ius Commune
  • 9. The Frequency of Criminal Prosecutions
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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