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- ↑ See reviews on https://www.amazon.co.uk/Applied-Ethics-Non-Consequentialist-David-Oderberg/dp/0631219056
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- ↑ Peter Singer, Abortion entry in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy 1995, pp. 2–3. Accessible at http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1995----03.htm
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