In my previous article, I responded to Toby Ord’s thought experiment that was meant to parallel miscarriages. In this article, I’ll respond to his arguments regarding what he sees as absurdities that result from the pro-life position. The Claim: Ord, for the sake of brevity, refers to “The Claim,” which is the claim by pro-life […]
Secular Pro-Life president Kelsey Hazzard here. On Friday and Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending the Vita et Veritas (Life & Truth) Conference 2013 at Yale University. On Friday afternoon I was part of the panel “Converging Paths: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Abortion,” along with representatives from the Center for Muslim Life, Christian […]
Philosopher Toby Ord wrote an article called “The Scourge: Moral Implications of Natural Embryo Loss” (The American Journal of Bioethics, 8(7): 12-19, 2008). This is an argument that comes up somewhat regularly, but Ord concocted a thought experiment to illustrate the argument. The argument usually goes as follows: Some 50% of pregnancies end in miscarriages, […]
Tomorrow and Saturday, Yale University hosts the Vita et Veritas (Life and Truth) conference. This conference will bring together pro-life youth leaders from across the United States, as well as more experienced veterans of the pro-life movement, to learn from one another. Secular Pro-Life’s Kelsey Hazzard will be on a panel tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 […]
In the past week or so, I’ve been exposed to this facebook advertisement constantly: You might think: “Hooray! Planned Parenthood is finally focusing on breast health instead of just being an abortion business!” Not so fast. I visited the website, and was dismayed (but not at all surprised) to discover that this is a public […]
Today is the annual Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity, during which pro-lifers—primarily students—give up their voices to honor the victims of abortion. Although Secular Pro-Life is not an official co-sponsor of this event, we strongly support all the courageous young people who are participating this year. In past years, some students have faced ridicule from […]
Last week, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a lawsuit against a recent regulation issued by the Iowa Board of Medicine. That regulation declares that webcam abortions cannot be conducted in that state. A webcam abortion (sometimes called telemed abortion) is exactly what it sounds like: a doctor who never examines the patient in person […]
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Dean Stretton imagines a case in which an emergency arises and a person is faced with the choice of rescuing ten frozen human embryos or five adult patients. Since virtually everyone would choose to save the adult patients rather than the embryos, this indicates that the patients have a higher moral status than the frozen […]
The federal government shutdown is entering its second week, and one of the programs it is impacting is WIC: the nutrition program for low-income women, infants and children. We can argue all day about whose fault that is, but SPL is not a liberal or conservative organization. The important thing is that while this shutdown […]
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