T&T Clark Reader in Abortion and Religion

Reviewed by: Anis Ahmad, Riphah International University, Pakistan

Published by: London: T&T Clark, 2023, 452pp. ISBN: 978-0567694713.

Edited by: Rebecca Todd Peters and Margaret D. Kamitsuka

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Abortion in the post-modern world is one of the important socio-ethical issues. Modernity has given birth to a society in which several complex bio-ethical issues have emerged which are causing a real social and moral crisis. Women empowerment and individualism define personal privacy as total autonomy for women and, as such, women empowerment allows a would-be mother to decide the fate of her foetus as part of her body.