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<p><P>For over twenty years the abortion debate has raged, with each side entrenched in unyielding positions. This book breaks the impasse by using pro-life premises to reach pro-choice conclusions. While it is commonly assumed that state protection of the fetus as a form of human life undermines women's reproductive rights, McDonagh instead illuminates how it is exactly such state protection of the fetus that strengthens, rather than weakens, not only women's right to an abortion, but even more significantly, women's ability to call on the state for abortion funding. McDonagh's approach, by bridging the divide between pro-life and pro-choice advocates, revolutionizes the abortion debate in a way that opens up a whole new avenue for resolving the abortion conflict and advancing women's rights.<P>McDonagh reframes the abortion debate by locating the missing piece of the puzzle&#58; <b>the fetus as the cause of pregnancy.</b> After exposing the myths on this subject, her exacting analysis presents the scientific and legal evidence that the ultimate source of pregnancy is the fetus. The central issue then becomes what the fetus, as an active agent, does to a woman's body during pregna

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Author

Eileen Lorenzi MacDonagh

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197718513

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Gender Studies, Social_sciences