Creation and Abortion : An Essay in Moral and Legal Philosophy

This book presents a new argument attacking the view that if the foetus has the moral standing of a person it has a right to life and abortion is impermissible.

Most discussion of abortion has assumed that this premise is correct, and so has focused on the question of the personhood of the foetus.

Frances Kamm, however, argues that abortion can be moral even if the foetus is indeed a person.