Arguments about Abortion Personhood, Morality, and Law

Kate Greasley, Lecturer in Law, University College London

Kate Greasley is a Lecturer in Law at University College London. After completing her doctorate in law at New College, Oxford, she was appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship in Law at University College, Oxford, from 2013 to 2016. Her research and teaching covers medical law and ethics, criminal law, and legal theory. She has written extensively to date about issues in abortion law and ethics, as well as other topics in bioethics, including assisted dying, property rights in human body parts, and the commercialization of human organs.

Introduction
Part One: Ordering the Argument
1. What Should Abortion Argument be About?
2. Gestation as Good Samaritanism
3. Abortion as Justified Homicide
4. Analogical Arguments and Sex Equality
Part Two: The Threshold of Personhood
5. Vagueness, Arbitrariness, and 'Punctualism'
6. Dualism, Substantial Identity, and the Precautionary Principle
7. Gradualism and Human Embodiment
8. Human Equality and the Significance of Birth
Part Three: Principle and Pragmatism
9. Regulating Abortion
10. Selective Abortion: Sex and Disability
11. Matters of Conscience