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ABORTION AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: A RESPONSE TO BEVERLY HARRISON

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2009

Matthew Flannagan
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Abstract

Can one consistently oppose abortion on moral grounds, yet think the death penalty is morally acceptable?

Type
Research Article
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Think , Volume 8 , Issue 21 , Spring 2009 , pp. 99 - 103
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2009

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Notes

1 Harrison, Beverly, Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1983), p. 35Google Scholar.

2 Ibid.

3 In this discussion of formal and implicit contradictions I am influenced by Plantinga, Alvin, God, Freedom and Evil (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1974) pp. 14-16Google Scholar.