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What do We Learn from Japanese Feminist Bioethics?
Masahiro Morioka
 
Area 1 Ethics
Area 2 Political Philosophy
Keywords  
http://www.lifestudies.org/feminism01.html
Mitsu Tanaka, activist and philosopher, thinks that a woman who has an abortion sways between two kinds of consciousness, that is, the consciousness that it is her right to determine whether to have an abortion or not, and the consciousness that she is going to be a fetus killer. Tanaka concludes that women should face this "confused self" swaying between these two kinds of consciousness, because this "confused self" should be the basis of the women's movement and the coming new philosophy of life.