Carlson's protégé and successor, Todd Carter, 42, said: "I don't believe the problem of abortion will be solved by overturning Roe v. Wade.
Professor Feinberg edited many other books, jointly and alone, among them "The Problem of Abortion" (Wadsworth, 1973), for which he wrote the introduction.
In 1967, in the essay "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect," she discussed, using a series of provocative examples, the moral distinctions between intended and unintended consequences, between doing and allowing, and between positive and negative duties — the duty not to inflict harm weighed against the duty to render aid.
In a paper on abortion (The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect, 1967), she used what became a much-cited example to pinpoint fine distinctions in moral permissibility where an action has both good and bad results – the dilemma facing the driver of a suddenly brakeless trolley-bus that would hit five people unless he steered it on to another track into only one person.
The problem of abortion poses the question, "When, exactly, does a full-fledged human being or 'person' with the full panoply of human rights come into being?" At the other end of life's journey, we ask, "When, exactly, does a person die?", and in order to address this question, we need to proffer a definition of death itself.
Data on the problem of abortion among University students is particularly scanty [ 13].
Falwell declared in 1965 that he had no business in politics, but justified his involvement and the inevitable mix of religion and government with evidence that the social problems of abortion, pornography, sexual immorality, and drugs were bringing the United States to a dangerous precipice where communism would prevail over Christianity.
Seven of the 23 interviewed sheep flock owners reported recent problems of abortion.
Postabortion contraceptive services appear to be well accepted by women who are admitted with complications after an unsafe abortion and should thus be recognized as an important means in addressing the problem of unsafe abortion.
The letter, signed by Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor and Cardinal Keith O'Brien, said: "The 1967 Act was intended to solve the problem of illegal abortion, on the basis that it was a major cause of death in pregnant women.
