[Today’s guest post by Ben Williamson is part of our paid blogging program.] Philosopher David Boonin, who is a prominent advocate of abortion rights, is in my opinion one of the most sophisticated defenders of abortion rights out of the authors I have read. He is somewhat different from most abortion rights advocates in that […]
Two years ago, Todd Akin kamikaze’d his career during an interview in which he said, “First of all, from what I understand from doctors, [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin apologized for the comment, but it […]
[Today’s post by Ben Williamson is part of our paid blogging program.] It’s well-established, as a scientific matter, that preborn embryos and fetuses are living human organisms. Nevertheless, many abortion advocates claim that the human embryo is not really a human being, but is merely a clump of cells, no more valuable than any somatic […]
[Today’s guest post by Ben Williamson is part of our paid blogging program.] It is absolutely critical that the issue dividing the pro-lifers and abortion advocates be clarified and not muddled by irrelevancies. As author Scott Klusendorf points out in The Case for Life: “If you think a particular argument for elective abortion begs the […]
[Today’s guest post by Crystal Kupper is part of our paid blogging program.] I woke up last week with two identical news stories from friends posted to my Facebook page: five-time national champion Alysia Montano ran a whopping 34 seconds slower than her personal best in the 800-meter event at the U.S. Track and Field […]
[Today’s post by Nick Reynosa is the final installment of a four-part series. Click here for part 1, here for part 2, and here for part 3.] We come to the last part of the life equation: women’s deaths from illegal abortion. I think this is a three part question: Are their deaths avoidable? If […]
[Today’s post by Nick Reynosa is part 3 of a four-part series. Click here for part 1 and here for part 2.] [Editor’s note: This post was written prior to the announcement of the Hobby Lobby decision. Wherever you come down on that decision, it’s worth mentioning that even the Hobby Lobby plaintiffs, who are […]
[Today’s post by Nick Reynosa is part 2 of a 4-part series. Click here for part 1.] The National Abortion Federation argues that in the U.S. prior to Roe v. Wade, there were as many as 1.2 million abortions per year—the same number as today. Is that correct? Most pro-lifers say no; in 1973, the […]
[Today’s post is part one in a 4-part series by Nick Reynosa. Parts 2-4 will run tomorrow through Friday.] In a 2013 article by former pro-lifer turned feminist blogger Libby Anne, she discusses the story of her conversion to the pro-choice movement. In her piece she highlights a contention pro-lifers hear all too often: that […]
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