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Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, Vol. 73 No. 4, 2023.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.73.4.05

Abortion – Political Construct or Moral Issue?

Katarina Peročević orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-3622-7891 ; Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the history of abortion and factors that influenced the legalization of abortion in Western society. The question is raised whether abortion should, according to its definition as an objective good or evil, be prohibited or legitimized, or will the legal framework on abortion be regulated as a political construct, independently of the objective moral nature of abortion. The possibility of finding the right answer to the abortion debate is analysed. Conclusion is drawn as to whether abortion can be justified by a political goal, or is it a moral issue independent of politics.

Keywords

abortion; moral; law; philosophical and legal theories; truth

Hrčak ID:

311380

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/311380

Publication date:

30.11.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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