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“Fewer rights than a corpse!” rebutted

April 13, 2020/0 Comments/in Bodily Rights /by Kelsey Hazzard

Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one: Bodily autonomy means every person has control over how their body is used. It’s why you can’t be forced to donate organs, even if you’re dead. By saying a fetus has a right to use a woman’s body, you’re making it so that women have less bodily […]

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Why Abortions Are Still Wrong and Should be Illegal (Part One)

September 4, 2019/0 Comments/in Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox

Nathan Nobis and Kristina Grob recently published a book called Thinking Critically About Abortion: Why Most Abortions Aren’t Wrong & Why All Abortions Should Be Legal. The book was designed to teach people on both sides of the aisle, pro-life and pro-choice, how to have better conversations on the topic by pointing out bad arguments, […]

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Assessing Theories of Pro-Life Motivations

August 23, 2019/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Guest Blogger

A saying typically attributed to former President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower goes “Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.” Unfortunately, it has become commonplace for defenders of abortion to ignore this concept. With the growing toxicity influencing our political discourse every day, bad ideas are given fertile ground […]

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It’s not about bodily autonomy. Here’s how we know.

July 31, 2019/0 Comments/in Bodily Rights /by Kelsey Hazzard

We’ve all heard the argument that begins “You must not really care about saving lives because you don’t [fill in the blank with the policy preference du jour]. You’re just about controlling women’s bodies!” And when we’re feeling uncharitable, we can always throw it right back at them: they don’t really care about bodily autonomy, […]

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Sources for SPL’s “The case against abortion” presentation

April 22, 2019/0 Comments/in Speeches, Discussions, Presentations, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

Today at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Malcolm Potts will be hosting his bi-annual point/counterpoint-style lecture on abortion for his public health class. This year, Monica Snyder of Secular Pro-Life will be presenting the antiabortion case. We hope to have video of her presentation later–EDIT: you can now watch the full presentation here–but meanwhile […]

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The Plot Thickens: Rasanen on Ectogenesis

November 27, 2017/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox

I recently wrote an article responding to Joona Rasanen’s arguments regarding ectogenesis. Ectogenesis refers to an organism growing in an artificial environment outside the body in which it would normally be found. In this context, it refers to the human embryo or fetus gestating in an artificial womb rather than the woman’s womb who conceived […]

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Will Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate?

November 7, 2017/0 Comments/in Bodily Rights /by Clinton Wilcox

Illustration of artificial womb technology sustaining a young lamb Xavier Symons, writing for BioEdge, a news website that focuses on bioethics, wrote an article about ectogenesis. Ectogenesis refers to a human embryo or fetus developing in an artificial environment outside of the woman’s uterus. Scientists recently kept premature lamb fetuses alive in an artificial environment, […]

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The Case of the Imaginary Violinist

October 6, 2017/0 Comments/in Bodily Rights /by Kelsey Hazzard

Anyone who argues the pro-life position is likely to come across a series of logical fallacies about bodily autonomy. Often this is packaged in the form of a story about a fictional violinist. This illogical and highly implausible story was created by Judith Jarvis Thomson, an MIT professor, in her 1971 essay A Defense of […]

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Bodily Autonomy and Medical Ethics in the Abortion Debate

June 22, 2016/0 Comments/in Bodily Rights /by Kelsey Hazzard

[Today’s guest post by Todd Pettigrew is part of our paid blogging program.] On those rare occasions that I tell my friends that I have a pro-life stance on abortion, their reaction is typically surprise followed by a quick objection along the lines of  “Well, if it’s her body…” and then they seem to think […]

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Woman blinds herself with doctor’s help. Her body, her choice?

October 5, 2015/0 Comments/in Bodily Rights /by Kelsey Hazzard

You probably read the about the woman who received her fifteen minutes of fame last week for her decision to blind herself, with the assistance of a psychologist: A North Carolina woman says she is happier than ever after fulfilling her lifelong wish of becoming blind. Jewel Shuping, 30, has Body Integrity Identity Disorder, which is […]

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