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Why artificial wombs pose a challenge to pro-choice personhood arguments

October 22, 2021/0 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Alex Hyun

[Photo credit Patricia Prudente from Unsplash] Personhood and Artificial Womb Technology In 2017, artificial womb technology was successfully used to support lamb fetuses that had been transferred from their mothers, and there’s hope that this technology will soon be used on very premature human infants. This makes it important to think about the moral status […]

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Embryos & metaphysical personhood: both biology & philosophy support the pro-life case.

October 20, 2021/0 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Kristina Artuković

Photo credit NeONBRAND with Unsplash [Esta publicación está disponible en español aquí.] Today’s guest blog post is by Kristina Artuković Anyone who is in any way involved in the debate on prenatal justice knows that it usually involves tiring discussions about the meaning of terms like human, person, personhood or potentiality. More versed pro-choice advocates […]

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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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Are Human Embryos Human Beings from the Beginning?

June 12, 2019/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Pro-choice advocates will insist that the human embryo doesn’t become a human being until birth or at least sometime late in pregnancy. Pro-life people generally agree with the scientific consensus that human life begins at fertilization; once the ovum cell is fertilized by the sperm cell, a new, genetically distinct human organism […]

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The Sorites Paradox as it Pertains to Personhood

October 17, 2018/0 Comments/in Personhood, Philosophy /by Clinton Wilcox

My friend and pro-life mentor Steve Wagner introduced me to an article by Lee F. Kerckhove and Sara Waller (hereafter, K&W) called “Fetal Personhood and the Sorites Paradox.” [1] It’s not an argument I’ve seen very often but it was recently expounded by Kate Greasley in her book Arguments About Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and the […]

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The Stockman Test

March 28, 2018/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard

I grew up in Britain in the 1970’s, a time when there was still some residual ethos of empire in a country that had not entirely emerged from World War II. I attended a high school in London which was founded sometime in the late 18th century and, despite the fact that it had been […]

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Are viruses “alive?”

February 13, 2018/0 Comments/in Biology /by Monica Snyder

The fetus is a living human organism. When I state this long-standing and (at least in the field of biology) undisputed fact, pro-choicers usually have one of three reactions: Reaction 1: They argue the point based on ignorance of basic biology. “A single cell is not an organism.” “A zygote is no different than your […]

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Can Pro-Life People See the Future?

June 8, 2016/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox

There’s a pro-life argument that’s been going around for some time, and it goes something like this: If you abort a child, you are, essentially, aborting all the generations that would have come after him or her. It’s summed up in the following image: This argument has always struck me as bizarre, and it’s even […]

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Taking a Symmetrical View of Human Life

November 4, 2015/0 Comments/in Philosophy, Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox

Baruch Brody, in an essay titled “Against an Absolute Right to Abortion”, [1] defends what he calls the brain, heart, and lung theory of death, adapted from a theory put forth by ethicist Paul Ramsey. Brody is, himself, pro-life, but only after the first trimester. The view he supports essentially states in order to determine […]

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Why Focusing On the Unborn Child is So Crucial

September 18, 2015/0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Clinton Wilcox

Scott Klusendorf, president of Life Training Institute, developed a tool to help us keep the conversation focused on what the unborn is. That tool is called Trot Out the Toddler. Essentially, if someone is talking about circumstances, such as poverty, while these circumstances are important to discuss, they are not the issues that affect the […]

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