Photo Credit: Austin Distel on Unsplash This debate was a three-ring circus in terms of complexity. The viewer needs to keep his or her eye on at least three discussions at once. The discussions that I will number 2 and 3 here tend to fade out and get revived periodically over the course of the […]
Photo Credit Viviana Rishe on Unsplash Psychological approaches to personal identity are normally used to argue that since an embryo doesn’t have a psychology (doesn’t have a mind), it doesn’t have a continuous identity with more highly-developed, “smarter”, stages of the organism that will follow the embryo stage; and that therefore if you kill an […]
[Today’s guest article is by Acyutananda.] There is a particular pro-life feminist theory which I have sometimes reiterated in Secular Pro-Life blogposts: The removal of abortion as an easy option ensures that people will protest strongly for better conditions for women. Why bother to protest strongly, which is a lot of trouble, as long as […]
Whenever anyone says to me, “Men can’t get pregnant, so they shouldn’t talk about abortion – more often sloganized in the form of “No Uterus, No Opinion” – I am torn between responses. There are four ways that I could reply. If not possible or worth it to cover all four of them, I have […]
About a week ago as I write this, a pro-choicer tweeted to tell me that I grant women “fewer rights than a corpse.” Then the next day, another accused me in a tweet of “special pleading for embryos.” A few days after that another said, “Why do unborn people deserve special rights that no other […]
Young pro-life advocates stand outside the Supreme Court, wearing judicial wigs and robes and carrying signs in support of Judge Barrett’s confirmation. Photo credit: Students for Life of America on Facebook It looks like a nightmare pro-abortion horde is about to take over this country. According to polling, the presidency, House and Senate will all […]
[Today’s guest post is by Acyutananda.] During his lifetime, Christopher Hitchens seems to have been consistent always in perceiving the rightful place of the unborn as members of our human family; yet he seems to have been “all over the map” regarding public policy on abortion. He said different things about law and policy at […]
At a town hall in Des Moines on January 26, Kristen Day, the president of Democrats for Life of America, asked Pete Buttigieg whether he would support the Democratic Party platform’s reverting to some language similar to language it had used in 1996 and for several years thereafter. The 1996 platform had contained this: The […]
Most people who identify as pro-life are advocates of legal restrictions on abortion. But there are some also who actively oppose abortion, yet do not want it to be outlawed, or at least do not want to make any efforts to outlaw it; their focus is on cultural attitude changes made possible mainly by better […]
With a new poll out from two organizations called Supermajority and PerryUndem, Jill Filipovic says she has come to the conclusion that pro-lifers are pro-life because they want to control women. In order for that to be a valid conclusion, the following pieces all have to fit together in the way that Filipovic says they […]