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Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons Licensing, Open Education, Charlotte Roh
Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons Licensing, Open Education, Charlotte Roh
Charlotte Roh
Workshop presentation for faculty who have projects for the Five College Consortium's Blended Learning in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences.
Inconsistent Ethical Models: Abortion Opposition Ignores Foster Care, Michael Katz
Inconsistent Ethical Models: Abortion Opposition Ignores Foster Care, Michael Katz
Michael Katz
Not all pro-life movements are equivalent. Some states are pushing harder to ban abortion than others. These states are focal points for the pro-life movement, and are therefore most telling as to the ethics of the movement as a whole. To gauge the ethical basis for pro-life legislation, this paper takes a closer look at the nine states that form the locus of the country’s pro-life movement. Possible ethical models are posited as foundations for state legislation opposing abortion, and then used as the analytical basis to test the ethical consistency of the pro-life movement. Specifically, this paper considers whether …