On December 28, 2018, the New York Times published a 13,500-word article attributed to its editorial board. A momentous question underlying this article almost receives the recognition it deserves from the authors. In the third paragraph they say this much about the question: a deep shift in American society, away from a centuries-long tradition in […]
Suppose a cute toddler is playing in front of us, riding on a toy truck, laughing and having a great time. She may be my child, or she may be anyone’s child. And suppose I kill that toddler before your eyes. You will all be shocked, certainly. What I want to dig into here is […]
[Today’s guest post by Acyutananda is part of our paid blogging program.] So far as I know, the recent “Why Can’t a Feminist Be Pro-Life?” panel at the Catholic University of America marked the first time that pro-choice feminists, who are the feminist mainstream, entered a formal setting where they found undeniable confirmation of the […]
[Today’s guest post by Acyutananda is part of our paid blogging program.] Pro-life feminism claims that the institution of legal abortion is bad for women. Is it true? This article will focus on the U.S., and the thesis will be: the population of American women can be divided into three groups. The first group will […]
Screenshot: Ilyse Hogue, who is the president of NARAL and the mother of an aborted baby, speaks at the Democratic National Convention [Today’s guest post by Acyutananda is part of our paid blogging program.] Ilyse Hogue is said to have made history on July 24, 2016 as the first person to talk about her own […]
[Today’s post is co-authored by Acyutananda and Kelsey Hazzard.] The idea that legal abortion is a symptom of and reinforces a patriarchal, misogynistic social system is not new. In our awareness, it goes back at least to the founders of Feminists for Life. However, there has been a flowering just recently of fresh thinking on […]
[Today’s post is co-authored by SPL president Kelsey Hazzard and guest writer Acyutananda as part of our paid blogging program.] Most abortion advocates concede that killing a person is normally wrong, but contend that unborn humans are not persons. Typically they point to the embryo’s lack of present consciousness. But some such advocates apparently realized […]
Meme via Live Action [Today’s guest post by Acyutananda is part of our paid blogging program.] “A woman is an actual, living, breathing person, and a zygote/embryo/ fetus is only a potential person.” This statement is a staple feature of discussions about abortion, and the meaning is always that the woman can rightfully abort the […]
The one person who can’t fight back. [Today’s guest post by Acyutananda is part of our paid blogging program.] Let’s look at abortion in terms of problem-solving. What is the problem? Unwanted pregnancies. (Unwanted by someone – the pregnant woman often, but not always, being one of those persons.) Next we have to ask, what […]