- Paperback: 616 pages
- Publisher: Athena Press (29 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184401259X
- ISBN-13: 978-1844012596
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.2 x 4.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,247,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this comprehensive, well-researched and compelling study of abortion and the law, ethics and history surrounding it, Gavin Walsh presents a detailed and arresting argument for the sanctity of human life and our duty to defend it. Drawing on an impressive range of sources from across the spectrum of this important debate, the author deals with the fundamental legal and ethical issues at stake, identifying the controversy and dealing with the laws of Britain and America, the laws of humanity and the vast library of literature on both sides of the passionate argument. 'The Worst Acts of Violence' is a valuable and insightful addition to the unresolved conflict, prompting a review of past analysis and reinvigorating the ongoing debate.
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The Worst Acts of Violence deals with abortion from legal, ethical and historical perspectives. It considers the sanctity of human life and the complex meaning of Liberty as the second most basic human right, the meaning and significance of pluralism and the laws of humanity and the most sacred obligations of state criminal law.
Placing arguments about the humanity of the unborn child and women's rights in the abortion context in historical, ethical and legal context, the book primarily looks at the law and ethics of abortion from the situations in Britain and America. In the US, a right to decide in favour of abortion is located by the majority of the Supreme Court in the "privacy" and Liberty interests of pregnant women while the American Convention on Human Rights maintains that the human right of Life should be protected, in law and in general, from conception. In Britain, while the Abortion Act 1967 allows the permissive practice of abortion, predominantly for minor therapeutic and social reasons (by means of defences to criminal liability where abortions are certified and performed by doctors) the criminal law rules on abortion still recognise the inherent criminality of child destruction at any stage of pregnancy, from when a woman is first with child, with the result that there is, in the UK, no recognised right to abortion.
In both countries, and around the world, resolution of this important controversy is complicated by social, medical, economic and political factors, but it is by far the ethical and legal issues implicated, on Life and Liberty, which define abortion as the most substantial issue in the law and ethics of our time, an issue comparable with the likes of infanticide, slavery and apartheid in human history.
The book argues that neither the social neglect of those facing unwanted pregnancy nor permissive abortion practice are acceptable in nations where the rule of law is founded upon recognition of the sanctity of all human life. It demonstrates that there is not a legitimate Liberty interest in the destruction of human life, that true feminism cannot involve the abuse of power in defining the weak out of their humanity in order to destroy them, and that when the sanctity of human life is recognised abortion can only be defended where there is a risk to the lives of the pregnant woman and her unborn child.
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