Abortion in Controversy

Harvard FAS

Today the law of abortion in America is more in flux than it has been for decades. Educated citizens should have opportunities to study the issue in detail and to decide what they think. This seminar is designed to help first-year students discuss, in an academic setting, the difficult, important, and controversial questions raised by abortion. These include questions of ethics, policy, and law; of human personhood and futures of value; of autonomy and equality; of politics and history; and…