ABSTRACT
Writing of US women’s decisions to abort, feminist ethicists have underscored the contextualised, relational considerations that are involved in women’s deliberations. In her groundbreaking study of abortion in the United States, Petchesky suggests that
. . .when we penetrate beneath the conventionally articulated ideas about what is ‘morally correct,’ we find another, more popularly understood set of moral values that reflects a sense of immediacy and personal responsibility in ethical decisions and an attentiveness to the practical demands arising out of concrete circumstances.
