Bodies, selves, and moral responsibilities

In this article, I respond critically to Naomi Wolf's claim that the pro-ch oice movement has abandoned the moral framework regarding abortion. Propone nts of pro-choice and pro-life stances both draw heavily on moral concepts of care, nurture, and choice. I argue that Wolf does not give due considera tion to ways in which feminist ethics have expanded notions of morality to integrate the rights and responsibilities of moral selves. I demonstrate th is integration through elaborating on Wolf's major contentions about: the i mportance of language as a moral construct; the range of accountability in decision-making; and the insertion of a specifically spiritual discourse in to discussions of bodies and selves. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rig hts reserved.