عنوان

Catholicism, Choice and Consciousness:

شماره

LA113089

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Catholicism, Choice and Consciousness:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

A Feminist Theological Perspective on Abortion

نام نخستين پديدآور

Tina Beattie

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Despite the apparently irreconcilable conflict between 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice' activists in the abortion debate, many feminists and Catholic theologians agree that questions of consciousness, relationality and foetal development are of greater ethical significance than theological claims about the personhood of the embryo or feminist claims about women's autonomy. This article argues that absolutist positions based on the embryo's right to life or the woman's right to choose fail to represent the reality of abortion and the dilemmas it poses. It suggests an approach in which maternal consciousness and foetal development are together recognized as intrinsic to the process of humanization, and argues for a gradual shift in emphasis from the primacy of the woman's right to choose in the first trimester, to the right to life of the foetus in the third semester. It concludes with a reflection on Mary and Eve, as symbols of women's eschatological hope and existential reality with regard to childbearing. Despite the apparently irreconcilable conflict between 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice' activists in the abortion debate, many feminists and Catholic theologians agree that questions of consciousness, relationality and foetal development are of greater ethical significance than theological claims about the personhood of the embryo or feminist claims about women's autonomy. This article argues that absolutist positions based on the embryo's right to life or the woman's right to choose fail to represent the reality of abortion and the dilemmas it poses. It suggests an approach in which maternal consciousness and foetal development are together recognized as intrinsic to the process of humanization, and argues for a gradual shift in emphasis from the primacy of the woman's right to choose in the first trimester, to the right to life of the foetus in the third semester. It concludes with a reflection on Mary and Eve, as symbols of women's eschatological hope and existential reality with regard to childbearing.

تاريخ نشر

2009

توصيف ظاهري

51-75

عنوان

International Journal of Public Theology

شماره جلد

4/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-7320

اصطلاح موضوعی

abortion

اصطلاح موضوعی

Caritas in Veritate

اصطلاح موضوعی

feminism

اصطلاح موضوعی

personhood

اصطلاح موضوعی

pro-choice

اصطلاح موضوعی

pro-life

اصطلاح موضوعی

Roman Catholicism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Tina Beattie

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/187251710X12578338897863

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y