Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Abortion

  • Three Lockean Reasons to Oppose the Destructive Dems

    New, improved, updated.  Top o' the Stack.  A call to action. Get off your lazy butts and do something for the great Republic that has made it possible for you to live a good life. What are you, an ingrate? Do you have children, grandchildren? Don't you want them to have a good life?  Are…

  • Trump softened his stance on abortion: so sit out the election?

    Abstaining from voting would be consummately stupid and would amount to the old mistake of letting the best become the enemy of the good. I'll say it again: in the politics of the real world, the choice is between better versus worse, not perfect versus imperfect.  A columnist at The Remnant gets it right (edits added…

  • Caiati on Feser on the GOP Platform re: Abortion

    This just in from Dr. Vito Caiati: I am wondering if you have been following the ongoing, intense debate on the GOP platform that has taken place on X and in several conservative online journals, which was ignited by Edward Feser and other social conservatives, who are strongly critical of the removal of long-standing planks…

  • A Common Mistake in the Abortion Debate

    Here is an oldie but a goodie of mine from almost 20 years ago (17 July 2004) dredged up just now via the Wayback Machine. Reproduced verbatim. Perfection needs no modification. …………………… It is commonly assumed that opposition to abortion can be based only on religious premises. To show that this assumption is false, only…

  • Trump’s Dobbs Strategy

    I'd say it's the right one.  You are free to differ. Related: Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained and Slavery, Abortion, and 'Skin in the Game'  

  • The Politics of Abortion

    Ron Paul and the principle of subsidiarity. Top o' the Stack.

  • What is Potentiality?

    Substack latest. An exploration of a much-misunderstood notion.

  • Mike Pence ‘Suspends’ his Campaign

    Here:  "I came here to say it’s become clear to me this is not my time. So after much deliberation I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today," he said onstage. " It'll never be your time, pal. You're a superannuated relic of a time long gone. Good riddance. Your use of…

  • More on the Politics of Abortion: Ron Paul and Subsidiarity

    Ron Paul. M.  D.: I strongly believe that the more difficult the issue is, the more local should be its solution. That is the real success of the Dobbs decision, because abortion should have never been a federal issue in the first place. Overturning Roe v Wade returned us to where we belonged, with state…

  • The Politics of Abortion Again

    Tony Flood writes and wants my response: What if we gain the presidency and lose our soul? I believe the conceptus (a fortiori, the embryo, the fetus) is an immature, but complete, human being with all the rights accruing thereto, including the right not to be wantonly destroyed. Most of the electorate, however, disagrees and…

  • Abortion and Last Night’s GOP Debate

    The overturning of Roe v. Wade returned the abortion question to the states. That means that each state is empowered to enact its own laws regulating abortion. Some states will permit abortion up to the moment of birth. Others will not. Different states, different laws. What then are we to make of Mike Pence and…

  • How Low Can We Sink?

    Seen at SOTU 2023 as worn by Senator Ed Markey, Massachusetts Democrat: For a long time now, the Democrats have been the abortion party. But under the 'leadership' of the 'devout Catholic,' Joe Biden, they've 'evolved' to use the Hillary word which means    devolved: they now celebrate abortion by expressing 'love' for it.  And…

  • Slavery, Abortion, and ‘Skin in the Game’

    Substack latest.

  • A Common Mistake in the Abortion Discussion

    It is often said that a human fetus is a potential human life. Not so! A human fetus is an actual human life.   Consider a third-trimester human fetus, alive and well, developing in the normal way in the mother. It is potentially many things: a neonate, a two-year-old, a speaker of some language, an…

  • Two Excellent Substack Articles

    Keith Burgess-Jackson, The Abortion Pendulum Michael Robillard, How I Left Academia, or, How Academia Left Me