Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201).
An almost absolute value in history / John T. Noonan -- A liberal Catholic's view / Joseph F. Donceel -- The scope of the prohibition against killing / Philip E. Devine -- Understanding the abortion argument / Roger Wertheimer -- Viability and the morality of abortion / Alan Zaitchik -- Justifying "wholesale slaughter" / Donald VanDeVeer -- A third way / L.W. Sumner -- Abortion and human rights / Norman C. Gillespie -- On the moral and legal status of abortion / Mary Anne Warren -- In defense of abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- Abortion, infanticide, and respect for persons / S.I. Benn -- Potentiality, development, and rights / Joel Feinberg -- Abortion and the concept of a person / Jane English -- Being a person- does it matter? / Loren E. Lomasky -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Ethical problems of abortion / Sissela Bok -- The 1973 Supreme Court decisions on state abortion laws : excerpts from opinion in Roe v. Wade