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IF CONTRACEPTION IS ETHICALLY PERMISSIBLE, THEN SO IS EARLY-TERM ABORTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2010

Jeff Mitchell
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Abstract

In the essay I argue that the routine use of contraception is morally tantamount to early-term abortion because it produces the same result: namely, it prevents the creation of a human life that would have otherwise probably taken place. Because it can be shown that contraception is ethically acceptable, it follows that early-term abortion is as well.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 9 , Issue 25 , Summer 2010 , pp. 39 - 45
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2010

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