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A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part IV

September 11, 2013/2 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

In part one, I examined Warren’s claim about humanity, in part two I examined Warren’s qualifications for personhood and showed why the unborn qualify, and in part three I examined Warren’s two questions about personhood and showed that her position fails to disqualify the unborn from personhood. In this article, I will examine her argument […]

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A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part III

August 28, 2013/1 Comment/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

In 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 […]

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On the Brain Requirement for Personhood

August 27, 2013/19 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 […]

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A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part II

August 20, 2013/22 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

In 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 […]

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A Critique of Mary Anne Warren’s On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Part I

August 14, 2013/11 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

I recently gave an in-depth critique of one of the most important articles ever written on the abortion issue. I would like to turn my attention now to another popular essay written by Mary Anne Warren called On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion. Whereas Thomson argued that pro-choice people can assume the unborn […]

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Abortion and a Flawed Brain-Life Theory

July 8, 2013/5 Comments/in Personhood /by Guest Blogger

[Today’s post by Prayson Daniel is part of Secular Pro-Life’s paid blogging program.] Tracking Baruch Brody’s view, brain-life theorists claim that in order to be fully human, a being must possess properties “such that their loss would mean the going out of existence (the death) of a human being” (Brody 1975, 102). The property of […]

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Arguments Against Fetal Personhood

February 4, 2013/8 Comments/in Personhood /by Clinton Wilcox

In my previous article on Personhood, I explained that what makes us “persons” (if you must use the term) is our inherent nature as rational, moral agents. While I tend not to focus on personhood arguments unless the topic is broached by the other person, I can only see one reason for disqualifying the preborn […]

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On Personhood

January 9, 2013/6 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

It’s an uncontroversial fact of science that the preborn conceived of a human male and human female are human beings (biologically) from fertilization. But does this mean that just because they’re human beings we can’t kill them? There are times when it’s almost universally accepted that it’s acceptable to kill a human being, such as […]

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A Future of Value

January 3, 2013/22 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

In my previous article, I examined the argument against abortion that I consider to be the strongest, the Substance View. This argument, by philosopher Don Marquis, is also a very strong argument and, when used in tandem with the Substance View, offers a very powerful cumulative case against abortion.This argument comes from Marquis’ 1989 article […]

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Viability = Personhood?

August 15, 2012/15 Comments/in Personhood, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

In the never-ending debates over what it means to be a “person” (as distinct from a human being) I’ve seen many people claim that you cannot be a person unless you are viable, i.e. a fetus is not a person until the fetus can live outside the mother’s body. The first counterargument I usually hear […]

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