Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights

By probing the connections between debates about abortion and animal rights, Beating Hearts uses each highly contested set of questions to shed light on the other. The authors maintain that sentience, or the ability to have subjective experiences, grounds a being's entitlement to moral concern....

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Main Author: Colb, Sherry F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Columbia University Press [2016]
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Summary:By probing the connections between debates about abortion and animal rights, Beating Hearts uses each highly contested set of questions to shed light on the other. The authors maintain that sentience, or the ability to have subjective experiences, grounds a being's entitlement to moral concern. These ethical explorations lead to a wider discussion of the strategies deployed by the anti-abortion and animal-rights movements
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Mar. 30, 2016)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780231540957

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