[This article is a transcript of “Yes, I think embryos are ‘real’ humans” courtesy of volunteer Ben Tomlin. If you’re interested in volunteering to transcribe more of our content, please complete our volunteer survey.] This video is also available on TikTok. Today, somewhere on one of our social media platforms, someone made a comment about how no one […]
[Today’s post is by Acyutananda. Read more of his thoughts on his blog: No Termination Without Representation] At a town hall during the 2020 primaries, the president of Democrats for Life asked Pete Buttigieg whether he would support making the abortion language in the Democratic Party platform more moderate, in order to win the votes of pro-life […]
[This article is a transcript of “People care about embryonic hearts” courtesy of volunteer Ben Tomlin. If you’re interested in volunteering to transcribe more of our content, please complete our volunteer survey.] Video also available on TikTok. So, whenever I talk about embryonic hearts there’s usually a few people who push back, both actually pro-life and pro-choice people, […]
I recently joined a pro-choice podcast for a long-form conversation about the morality of abortion and the nature of personhood. You can watch the video here: Access the Spotlight Debate Replay The host, Elijah Moore, defends legal abortion up to 20 weeks, grounding that position in the assumption that consciousness appears around that time in […]
Do fetuses have sensory experiences? In the ongoing discussions about fetal pain and fetal consciousness, some groups have argued fetuses have no sensory experiences throughout all of pregnancy. They say the neuroinhibitors in fetal blood continually sedate them, so they aren’t likely to experience pain (or anything else) until they’re born. Some abortion advocates use […]
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 […]
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