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A Response to “Conscious Abortion” Journal Article

February 11, 2022/1 Comment/in Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss, Personhood, Uncategorized /by Guest Blogger

Today’s guest article is by Petra Wallenmeyer, who is the Content Director at Human Defense Initiative. Introduction A rather interesting journal publication was brought to my attention a few weeks ago.  The article is called “Conscious Abortion: Engaging the Fetus in a Compassionate Dialogue” and was published in the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology […]

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Why artificial wombs pose a challenge to pro-choice personhood arguments

October 22, 2021/0 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Guest Blogger

[Photo credit Patricia Prudente from Unsplash] Personhood and Artificial Womb Technology In 2017, artificial womb technology was successfully used to support lamb fetuses that had been transferred from their mothers, and there’s hope that this technology will soon be used on very premature human infants. This makes it important to think about the moral status […]

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Embryos & metaphysical personhood: both biology & philosophy support the pro-life case.

October 20, 2021/0 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Guest Blogger

Photo credit NeONBRAND with Unsplash Today’s guest blog post is by Kristina Artuković Anyone who is in any way involved in the debate on prenatal justice knows that it usually involves tiring discussions about the meaning of terms like human, person, personhood or potentiality. More versed pro-choice advocates insist that the meaning of human is […]

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Personhood based on human cognitive abilities.

November 30, 2018/0 Comments/in Biology, Personhood, Research /by Monica Snyder

What difference is there (if any) between a human organism and a “person”? Is there such thing as a human non-person? How do we determine which human organisms have moral worth and merit social protection? People have given me a variety of suggestions for the factors human organisms need to be morally relevant, including connection […]

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The Sorites Paradox as it Pertains to Personhood

October 17, 2018/0 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

My friend and pro-life mentor Steve Wagner introduced me to an article by Lee F. Kerckhove and Sara Waller (hereafter, K&W) called “Fetal Personhood and the Sorites Paradox.” [1] It’s not an argument I’ve seen very often but it was recently expounded by Kate Greasley in her book Arguments About Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and the […]

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Does the first breath grant personhood?

August 8, 2017/0 Comments/in Personhood, Uncategorized /by Guest Blogger

[Today’s guest post by Beth Kulikov is part of our paid blogging program.] My husband likes to watch videos of conflict and controversy on YouTube. I recently overheard a speaker addressing a crowd in an open debate at which one young man stated that “the first breath” endows an individual with personhood. Interesting concept; I’d […]

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Revisiting the Spectrum Argument

July 10, 2017/0 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

[Today’s guest post by Clinton Wilcox is part of our paid blogging program.] A few years ago, Bob Seidensticker, a Patheos blogger, wrote about an argument he called the Spectrum Argument. I wrote an article in response. Seidensticker just updated a response to me a few days ago, which you can read here. I’d like […]

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Why Personhood Ultimately Doesn’t Matter in the Abortion Debate

August 19, 2015/0 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

Today, Dennis Prager released an excellent video presenting five non-religious moral arguments against abortion. Please give it a watch. I’d like to focus on the first of Prager’s five arguments, which is that even if the unborn are not persons, it doesn’t mean, ipso facto, that abortion is moral. Now, I’ve argued elsewhere that the unborn certainly […]

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David Boonin’s “Organized Cortical Brain Activity” Argument

July 14, 2014/74 Comments/in Personhood /by Kelsey Hazzard

[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 […]

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The Spectrum Argument, Round Two

February 3, 2014/12 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

So it seems that blogger Bob Seidensticker has decided to respond to my critique of his Spectrum Argument. You can find his original article here, and my rebuttal to it here, as well as Seidensticker’s most recent response here. At the end of his article, he asserts that I have mischaracterized and sidestepped the argument (Seidensticker seems to […]

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