Today’s guest post is written by Nick Colgrove, who has a PhD in philosophy and has published about ectogenesis (artificial wombs) and personhood. SPL has summarized his work previously. Imagine that one day, we develop artificial-gestation technologies (AGTs) that allows human beings to develop from conception until nine months in age. Rather than being gestated […]
Photo Credit: Marcelo Leal on Unsplash The Problem of Premature Birth Premature birth is a complication involving the birth of a baby before 37 weeks of pregnancy. 1 in 10 babies are born premature, with Black babies facing the greatest risk. Premature births have also risen by 4% in the U.S. from 2020 to 2021 […]
Can You Step Into the Same River Twice? The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for saying that it is not possible to step twice into the same river or to come into contact twice with a mortal being in the same state. His belief reflects the fact that things are always changing. The river […]
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 […]
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter established a schema to define which people may be classified as wizards. We can use an analogous schema to deduce which humans qualify as people. Harry Potter is a wizard by his essential kind. That means, because he inherited the nature of his two wizard parents, Harry belongs to the kind […]
[This article is a Spanish translation of “A Primer on Fetal Personhood and Consciousness” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Mestrovic. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please contact us.] Esta publicación fue escrita originalmente por Audrey Wagner. En el debate sobre el aborto, algunos partidarios del aborto legal niegan que el feto sea una persona, […]
Secular Pro-Life’s executive director, Monica Snyder, debated pro-choice Christian philosopher Dustin Crummett. The livestreamed conversation lasted two hours! You can watch the video above, or read the transcript below. [Special thanks to volunteer Samantha Sandstrom for her transcription. If you’d like to volunteer to transcribe or translate, please fill out our volunteer survey.] Santi: Welcome, […]
A week ago, we gathered at the corner of 12th and Constitution in Washington, D.C. to march for life with some of our dearest friends. Rehumanize International organized the meetup, which brought together members of Secular Pro-Life, Rainbow Pro-Life Alliance, Rehumanize DMV, Feminists Choosing Life of New York, Reprotection, Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, and more. Secular […]
On January 2, The New York Times ran a front page article called “When Does Life Start? A Post-Roe Conundrum,” and on January 14, the Times published reader responses. The first response was from Richard Ambron, a professor of cell biology with Columbia University. Below is his opinion interspersed with my commentary. When during gestation […]
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