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Comprehensive and balanced, this new third edition again makes available the most useful writing on the controversial abortion issue. Twenty-four essays and four excerpts from landmark Supreme Court decisions - including eleven new outstanding contributions - cover the history of abortion in the pre-Roe period; creative responses to the problem of abandoned infants; abortion in relation to the Constitution, feminism, and Christianity; and fundamental moral issues surrounding this polarising controversy. The contributors include: Joan C. Callahan, Sidney Callahan, Gregg Easterbrook, Harry J Gensler, Rick Hampson, Jack Hitt, Miriam Jordan, Gary Leber, Daniel C. Maguire, Don Marquis, Kathryn E May, Michael W McConnell, Ellen Messer, Anna Quindlen, Roger A Paynter, Jeffrey H. Reiman, Richard Selzer, Richard Schoenig, Paul D Simmons, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Mary Anne Warren, John T Wilcox, Naomi Wolf, and Melvin L Wulf.

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Robert M. Baird (Waco, TX) is a professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at Baylor University. Stuart E. Rosenbaum is a professor of philosophy and director of graduate studies in philosophy at Baylor University. He is the editor of Pragmatism and Religion. Together Baird and Rosenbaum edit the Contemporary Issues Series.

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