Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights

by Sherry F. Colb and Michael C. Dorf

How can someone who condemns hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation also favor legal abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? The authors of Beating Hearts aim to reconcile this apparent conflict and examine the surprisingly similar strategic and tactical questions faced by activists in the pro-life and animal rights movements.

Beating Hearts maintains that sentience, or the ability to have subjective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231175140
• ISBN13: 9780231175142
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"