Abortion Rights: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights
Abortion has become the most divisive political and social issue in late twentieth century America. When the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Missouri was within its constitutional rights to enact...
View ArticleAbortion and Rape: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights
In the first installment of this four-part series we examined a number of arguments for abortion rights which can be classified as appeals to pity. In this article I will present and critique more...
View ArticleThe Abortion Debate: Arguments from Tolerance
Many people in the abortion rights movement argue that their position is more tolerant than the pro-life position. After all, they reason, the abortion rights movement is not forcing pro-life women to...
View ArticleViability: Is a Fetus a Person Once it Can Live Outside the Mother’s Womb?
As I noted in Part Three, viability is the time at which the unborn human can live outside her mother’s womb. Some have argued that prior to this time, since the unborn cannot survive independent of...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion Arguments: What Are Some Anti-Abortion Arguments?
Anti-Abortion Arguments- THE GRADUALIST THESIS Those who defend the gradualist thesis, such as Daniel Callahan and Robert Wennberg,29 argue that the unborn entity increases in value as it develops...
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