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Dr Kate Greasley discusses her book 'Arguments about Abortion: Personhood, Morality and Law'

18 May 2017

Kate Greasley

Dr Kate Greasley, Lecturer in Law at 911±¬ÁÏÍø Faculty of Laws, discussed her bookÌýÌýalongside Professor Carol Sanger, theÌýBarbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, on 17 May 2017 at 911±¬ÁÏÍø Roberts Building.

Dr Anna Donovan, Vice Dean (Enterprise and Innovation), Lecturer in Law at 911±¬ÁÏÍø Laws and co-director ofÌýUCL Centre for Ethics and LawÌýchaired the event.

Both authors examined the central ideas of their respective books.ÌýDr Greasley’s book focuses on the moral and legal permissibility of terminating pregnancy, and the relevance of arguments about foetal personhood for that question.

Professor Sangers’ bookÌýconfronts the question of why so much of United States politics and society is concerned with the abortion issue.

Kate Greasley

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