[This article is a Spanish translation of “Pro-Choicers’ Persistent Infant Problem: A Reply to Boonin” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Caballero. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please contact us.] La publicación invitada de hoy la escribe el Dr. Alex Hyun. El Dr. Hyun recibió su Licenciatura en filosofía en la Universidad de California-Berkeley y […]
[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, […]
The Ethics of Abortion by Christopher Kaczor is one of the more frequently recommended pro-life works from our followers (see our reading list). Goodreads summarizes the book as follows: Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all […]
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, […]
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 […]
A self-described progressive atheist recently wrote us: “I’d like to understand the secular case against abortion. I already know the ‘biblical case.’ Is there a book I could read?” Here is a working list. Please note we have not personally read all of these, but others have recommended them as secular arguments either specifically against […]
[Esta publicación está disponible en español aquí.] In the abortion debate, some pro-choice advocates deny that the fetus is a person, a person being defined as a human meriting moral consideration and legal protections. What do humans need to qualify as persons? There are a variety of theories, but at least one popular pro-choice response […]
The Thought Experiment The Burning IVF Lab (also referred to as the Burning Fertility Clinic) is a thought experiment intended to demonstrate that people opposed to abortion don’t sincerely believe embryos are valuable human beings. The idea is that an IVF lab is on fire and you can save either a group of embryos (sometimes […]
[This article is a Spanish translation of “The Imago Dei, or “Why should secularists care about human life?”” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Caballero. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] Esta publicación fue escrita originalmente por Monica Snyder. Algunos de mis amigos que son cristianos pro-vida me han dicho […]
[This article is a Spanish translation of “Embryos & metaphysical personhood: both biology & philosophy support the pro-life case” courtesy of volunteer Pablo Mestrovic. If you’re interested in volunteering to translate our content, please fill out our volunteer survey.] El artículo del blog de un invitado de hoy es de Kristina Artuković Cualquiera que está de alguna […]
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