Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: The Asymmetric Value of Human Life Chapter 2 1 Abortion, From Hammurabi's Code to Roe v. Wade Chapter 3 2 The Main Abortion Arguments and Why They Fail Chapter 4 3 Abortion, Infanticide, and the Ways We Value Human Life Part 5 Index Part 6 About the Author

About the Author

Jeffrey Reiman is William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy at the American University and the author of many books, including Critical Moral Liberalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) and The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison. He is coauthor, with Louis Pojman, of The Death Penalty: For and Against (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).

Reviews

The book certainly has a lot to offer as an introduction to some of the historical context and main arguments in the abortion debate.
*Bulletin of Medical Ethics*