Beginning Lives

Rosalind Hursthouse is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland.

• Preface x Acknowledgements xivCHAPTER ONE Introduction: the issues, their context and strategy 1 1 Preliminaries 12 Moral philosophy: what does it yield? 43 Morality, legislation and abortion 12CHAPTER Two The moral status of the fætus 271 Introduction 272 The conservative view 313 The extreme liberal view 471 The animal view 592 The mixed strategy 653 The potentiality view 724 Conclusions 85CHAPTER THREE Trying to prove the fætus does not matter 891 Introduction 892 'Person' as opposed to 'human being' 913 Speciesism 1014 Tooley on abortion 1075 The person view and infanticide 1186 The person view and other issues 123CHAPTER FOUR Utilitarianism: abandoning the sanctity of life 1311 The utilitarian position 1312 Utilitarianism and animals 1473 Modifying utilitarianism 1584 The role of side-effects: a side issue 172CHAPTER FIVE Women's rights and wrongs 1781 Introduction 1782 Thomson's arguments 1823 Discussion and further criticisms 1944 Abortion as special 204CHAPTER SIX Neo-Aristotelianism 2181 Introduction 2182 The theory outlined 2203 The theory applied to animals 2374 The theory applied to aliens 247CHAPTER SEVEN What is wrong with utilitarianism 2601. What morality requires 2602. Benevolence and the other virtues 278CHAPTER EIGHT The special position of women 2931. The average woman 2952. Bearing children as intrinsically worthwhile 3071 What morality requires 2602 Benevolence and the other virtues 278CHAPTER EIGHT The special position of women 2931 The average woman 2952 Bearing children as intrinsically worthwhile 3073 Surrogacy 3184 Abortion 330APPENDIX ONE Human development 340APPENDIX Two Methods of abortion 344APPENDIX THREE Methods of overcoming APPENDIX FOUR infertility 346The Warnock Report' 352Glossary 356Index 359