title: [Theses on the ethics and legal ethics of abortion].
abstract: The author subjects the principal ethical and pragmatic arguments for the moral and legal rejection of abortion to critical scrutiny. He concludes that a prohibition of abortion can be justified neither by considerations of individual and social consequences nor by the standard arguments intended to show that abortion is intrinsically wrong as a form of killing specifically human life.
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich 1, Philosophie, Geschichts-, Religions- und Sozialwissenschaften, Fach Philosophie, der Universität Gesamthochschule Essen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Birnbacher
mesh_terms: D000029:Abortion, Legal; D001317:Austria; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009014:Morals; D011247:Pregnancy
vernacular_title: Thesen zur Ethik und Rechtsethik der Abtreibung.