{"product_id":"beating-hearts-sherry-colb-9780231175142","title":"Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeating Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e maintains that sentience, or the ability to have subjective experiences, grounds a being's entitlement to moral concern. The authors argue that nearly all human exploitation of animals is unjustified. Early abortions do not contradict the sentience principle because they precede fetal sentience, and \u003ci\u003eBeating Heart\u003c\/i\u003es explains why the mere potential for sentience does not create moral entitlements. Late abortions do raise serious moral questions, but forcing a woman to carry a child to term is problematic as a form of gender-based exploitation. These ethical explorations lead to a wider discussion of the strategies deployed by the pro-life and animal rights movements. Should legal reforms precede or follow attitudinal changes? Do gory images win over or alienate supporters? Is violence ever principled? By probing the connections between debates about abortion and animal rights, \u003ci\u003eBeating Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e uses each highly contested set of questions to shed light on the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sherry Colb, Michael Dorf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231175140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231175142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016","brand":"Sherry Colb","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992903483647,"sku":"9780231175142","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fef2c3f6-5105-4b13-942c-7365c475adb9.jpg?v=1683321447","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beating-hearts-sherry-colb-9780231175142","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}