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Shoot a Photo, Join a Movement
/23 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardSecular Pro-Life is working on a new project to increase awareness of the fact that there are over six million non-religious pro-lifers living in the United States. Don’t believe me? Let’s do the math. According to the Pew Research Center, 19.6% of American adults have no religious affiliation. That amounts to about 46 million people. […]
It’s the Equality, Stupid
/44 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Barry Garrett is part of our paid blogging program.] Marriage equality. Racial equality. Gender equality. Everywhere there’s equality. It’s hard to go about even one day in life without hearing a story in which one member (or class) of our species is accusing another member (or class) of our species of […]
A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part III
/1 Comment/in Personhood /by Clinton WilcoxIn part one of this series, I examined Warren’s definition of humanity, and in part two I examined her argument about what a person is and showed why the unborn certainly qualify. This article will be the third part of five, in which I’ll examine Warren’s claims about the right to life. 3. Fetal Development […]
On the Brain Requirement for Personhood
/19 Comments/in Personhood /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Timothy Hsiao is part of our paid blogging program.] Pro-choice philosophers have offered various laundry lists of criteria that all purport to list the properties relevant to being a person, i.e. an intrinsically valuable being worthy of moral concern and protection. One such proposal holds that the possession of a brain […]
Argument Against Regulating Abortion Facilities is Disingenuous
/12 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Rachel Cox is part of our paid blogging program.] Whenever a legislator proposes safety regulations for abortion facilities, the abortion industry always plays the part of the victim to drum up sympathy and support for their cause. They often claim safety regulations are unnecessary because complications from abortion rarely arise. Abortion complications may […]
Single-Issue Skepticism
/7 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardRecently, a fellow pro-life atheist who is active in Secular Pro-Life shared this on facebook: Jillette is obviously not the only person to have this thought, but he expresses it quite well. The argument that we need religion to make us behave is a lousy argument. The problem is that many people throw this reasoning […]
Tomorrow: #LifeMatters Tweet & Blogfest
/1 Comment/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardThe Feminist Majority Foundation (which, despite the name, unfortunately does not actually stand with the majority of women who believe that abortion is immoral) is promoting the twitter hashtag #abortionmatters to spread pro-abortion propaganda. They are referring to it as a “blog carnival” and say that the purpose is to “encourage wider education on the […]
“Against Abortion but For Choice” is a Cop-Out
/81 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard[Today’s guest post by Todd Pettigrew is part of our paid blogging program.] In today’s often polarized abortion debates, one common middle position is the stance that says “I’m not in favor of abortion, but I think people should have the right to choose.” At first, this sounds like admirably enlightened and judicious. It sounds […]
A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part II
/22 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton WilcoxIn part one of this examination, I showed that the pro-life position is not logically incoherent in considering the unborn to be human beings, both in the genetic sense and the moral sense. In this article, I’ll examine Warren’s criteria for personhood and show how the unborn certainly qualify. 2. Defining the moral community. Warren […]
Religious Minorities and the Pro-Life Movement
/20 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey HazzardLast Tuesday, Kristen Hatten, writing for Live Action News, wrote a piece that’s gotten quite a bit of attention, entitled “Atheists, agnostics, pagans, and more: do they have a place in the pro-life movement?” First of all, let me say that I’m pleased to see this conversation is happening. It’s long overdue. And I’m in […]