Category: Abortion
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Fetal Rights and the Death Penalty: Consistent or Inconsistent?
Substack latest. Is it consistent to support both fetal rights and the moral acceptability of capital punishment? There are two senses of ‘consistency’ at issue, and in neither sense is there any inconsistency.
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“The People are Supreme”
Thus read a protester's placard. Now that is rich! The implication is that in a democracy the people decide, not nine black-robed elitists, when the whole point of overturning Roe v. Wade is to return the question of the legality of abortion to the states where — wait for it – the people will decide.
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Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained
Why do the arguments against abortion have such little effect? Substack latest. See also Anthony G. Flood, Abortion, euphemism, and moral evasion.
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Democracy and Abortion Law
There is no need for me to make the point when Malcolm Pollack has made it so well: As a detached observer, I have to ask: If the two most important things in the moral universe are Democracy and abortion law, why is it a catastrophe when the Court decides that abortion law should be…
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To Provoke a Pre-Emptive Crap Storm?
Is that why it was leaked? ……………………… A correspondent replies: Yes, Bill, I believe so. Someone in Sotomayor's or Kagan's office. It was a call to action. They weren't going to let their side be blindsided. The leaker will either be protected or, if caught, then lionized. For them, the end of Roe is the end of…
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Secular Arguments against Abortion
Substack latest. A question rarely asked is the one I raise in this article: Is the abortion question tied to religion in such a way that opposition to abortion can be based only on religious premises? Or are there good reasons to oppose abortion that are nor religiously based, reasons that secularists could accept? The answer to…
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Are There Reproductive Rights?
There are, but abortion is not one of them. Substack latest.
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When Does Life Begin?
A brief Substack entry which makes a very simple point that, amazingly, is not appreciated by vast numbers in this country 'thanks' to the erosion of standards of thought and behavior caused by so-called 'liberals.'
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‘A Fetus That Was Born’
More linguistic chicanery from the Left. Obviously, a fetus that was born is no longer a fetus. To refer to a fetus that was born as a fetus aids and abets the next murderous move: the sanctioning of infanticide as just another form of abortion, post-natal abortion. The 'reasoning' might go like this: The killing…
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Why Did Trump Get the Religious Vote?
A re-post from two years ago. Cognate question: Why do leftists keep asking the title question? …………………………… Why did Donald J. Trump receive the support of evangelicals and other religious conservatives? After all, no one would confuse Trump with a religious man. Robert Tracinski's explanation strikes me as correct: The strength of the religious vote for Trump…
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Were You a Part of Your Mother?
Here Elselijn Kingma Mind, Volume 128, Issue 511, July 2019, 609–646. Abstract Is the mammalian embryo/fetus a part of the organism that gestates it? According to the containment view, the fetus is not a part of, but merely contained within or surrounded by, the gestating organism. According to the parthood view, the fetus is a…
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Potentiality and the Substance View of Persons
Here at MavPhil Strictly Philosophical
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Why Are We Discussing This?
Here: . . . members of the media were mostly interested in my finding that 96% of the 5,577 biologists who responded to me affirmed the view that a human life begins at fertilization. It was the reporting of this view—that human zygotes, embryos, and fetuses are biological humans—that created such a strong backlash. Why…
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The Orwellian Left and Abortion
For leftists, words are weapons. Nothing new here. If you have been paying attention, however, you will have noticed that their weaponization of language is becoming increasingly Orwellian. Case in point: OPPOSITION to abortion is now 'racist.' 'Racist' has long been a verbal cudgel in the hands (mouths?) of leftists, elastic in its meaning, but…
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Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained
Why do the powerful arguments against abortion have such little effect? The 'pro-choice' movement, to use the polite euphemism, is fueled by concupiscence. Not entirely, of course. To what extent, then? One naturally wants the pleasures of sexual intercourse without any consequences. One seeks cost-free indulgence in the most intense sensuous pleasure known to man.…