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| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Kathy Rudy, 1997-07-31 Entering the moral worlds of Catholicism, the evangelical Protestantism of the Operation Rescue movement, feminism, and the classical liberalism expressed in modern medicine, Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice brilliantly illuminates the little-understood religious and philosophical aspects of the abortion issue. Rudy reveals how each community's beliefs about abortion are connected to its deeply held values and concerns, and offers an alternative that would obviate the unproductive, divisive, and sometimes violent abortion debate we have today. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Abortion Gary Crum, Thelma McCormack, 1992 Inaugurating the series, Crum, trained in the biological sciences, and McCormack, a sociologist in the women's movement, take up the cudgels and argue, respectively, their pro-life and pro-choice stances. No index. Separate bibliographies and conclusions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Why Pro-Life? Randy Alcorn, 2022-05-03 An updated look at one of the most crucial issues of our time! Infused with compassion and grounded in science, Alcorn's guide takes a hard look at tough questions, including What makes life meaningful? and Is abortion really a women's rights issue? His clear presentation of the facts provides welcome insights for pro-choicers and pro-lifers alike. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice Amery, Fran, 2020-01-22 Examining the changing pluralities of contemporary abortion debate in Britain, this innovative and important book shows why it is necessary to move beyond an understanding of abortion politics as characterised in binary terms by ‘pro-choice’ versus ‘pro-life’. Amery traces the evolution of political and parliamentary discourses from the passage of the Abortion Act in the 1960s to the present day, and argues that the current provision of abortion in Britain rests on assumptions about medical authority over women’s reproductive decision-making which are unsustainable. She explores new arguments around sex-selective abortion, disability rights, pre-abortion counselling and the push for decriminalization, and radically reconceptualizes the debate to account for these new battlegrounds in abortion politics. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Pro-Choice Or Pro-Life? Randy Alcorn, 2020-10 There are few issues as impactful and consequential for our personal lives and communities as abortion. It divides people not only on the streets and in workplaces, but also in homes and churches. After all, this issue involves personal decisions about sex, pregnancy, parenting, and our health. So while abortion is difficult to talk about, it's important to provide accurate information and a context in which that information can be discussed.In this thoroughly researched and easy-to-read book, author Randy Alcorn examines fifteen major claims of the pro-choice position and shares fact-based, rational responses. If you have mixed feelings about abortion, as many people do, this book can be part of your quest for truth. If you're pro-choice or pro-life, it can help you think through your position. If we have any hope of understanding and engaging with each other, let's move our dialogue beyond bumper stickers, memes, and tweets. Randy encourages readers to listen carefully to arguments on both sides of the abortion debate, and to look at the evidence and weigh it on its own merit. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments Randy Alcorn, 2009-01-21 As politicians, citizens, and families continue the raging national debate on whether it's proper to end human life in the womb, resources like Randy Alcorn's Prolife Answers to Prochoice Arguments have proven invaluable. With over 75,000 copies in print, this revised and updated guide offers timely information and inspiration from a sanctity of life perspective. Real answers to real questions about abortion appear in logical and concise form. The final chapter -- Fifty Ways to Help Unborn Babies and Their Mothers-- is worth the price of this book alone! |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America Deana A. Rohlinger, 2015 Weaving together analyses of archival material, news coverage, and interviews conducted with journalists from mainstream and partisan outlets as well as with activists across the political spectrum, Deana A. Rohlinger reimagines how activists use a variety of mediums, sometimes simultaneously, to agitate for - and against - legal abortion. Rohlinger's in-depth portraits of four groups - the National Right to Life Committee, Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, and Concerned Women for America - illuminates when groups use media and why they might choose to avoid media attention altogether. Rohlinger expertly reveals why some activist groups are more desperate than others to attract media attention and sheds light on what this means for policy making and legal abortion in the twenty-first century. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Before Roe V. Wade Reva B. Siegel, 2012 As the landmark Roe v. Wade decision reaches its 40th anniversary, abortion remains a polarizing topic on America's legal and political landscape. Blending history, culture, and law, Before Roe v. Wade eplores the roots of the conflict, recovering through original documents and first-hand accounts the voices on both sides that helped shape the climate in which the Supreme Court ruled. Originally published in 2010, this new edition includes a new Afterword that explores what the history of conflict before Roe teaches us about the abortion conflict we live with today. Examining the role of social movements and political parties, the authors cast new light on a pivotal chapter in American history and suggest how Roe v. Wade, the case, because Roe v. Wade, the symbol. --Cover, p. 4. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Defending Life Francis J. Beckwith, 2007-08-13 Defending Life is arguably the most comprehensive defense of the pro-life position on abortion - morally, legally, and politically - that has ever been published in an academic monograph. It offers a detailed and critical analysis of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey as well as arguments by those who defend a Rawlsian case for abortion-choice, such as J. J. Thomson. The author defends the substance view of persons as the view with the most explanatory power. The substance view entails that the unborn is a subject of moral rights from conception. While defending this view, the author responds to the arguments of thinkers such as Boonin, Dworkin, Stretton, Ford and Brody. He also critiques Thomson's famous violinist argument and its revisions by Boonin and McDonagh. Defending Life includes chapters critiquing arguments found in popular politics and the controversy over cloning and stem cell research. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: The Ethics of Abortion Robert M. Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum, 1989 Twelve essays discuss the issue of abortion. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Pro-Life, Pro-Choice Bertha Manninen, 2014-07-01 In this provocative and accessible book, the author defends a pro-choice perspective but also takes seriously pro-life concerns about the moral value of the human fetus, questioning whether a fetus is nothing more than mere tissue. She examines the legal status of the fetus in the recent Personhood Amendments in state legislatures and in Supreme Court decisions and asks whether Roe v. Wade should have focused on the viability of the fetus or on the bodily integrity of the woman. Manninen approaches the abortion controversy through a variety of perspectives and ethical frameworks. She addresses the social circumstances that influence many women's decision to abort and considers whether we believe that there are good and bad reasons to abort. Manninen also looks at the call for post-abortion fetal grieving rituals for women who desire them and the attempt to make room in the pro-choice position for the views of prospective fathers. The author spells out how the two sides demonize each other and proposes ways to find degrees of convergence between the seemingly intractable positions. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Speaking for the Unborn: 30-Second Pro-Life Rebuttals to Pro-Choice Arguments Steven A. Christie, M.D., J.D., 2022-02-07 The Pro-Life cause is a winning one, and Pro-Life advocates must be able to articulate our powerful and persuasive reasons to anyone who asks. Speaking for the Unborn: 30-Second Pro-Life Rebuttals to Pro-Choice Arguments is designed to make sure Pro-Life advocates are fully prepared for this great challenge. It presents the best rebuttals to every Pro-Choice argument made in support of abortion—rebuttals based on science, the law, reason, social justice and morality. This handbook (and its companion website, SpeakingForTheUnborn.org) is all you will ever need to powerfully and persuasively speak up for those who have no voice of their own. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Thinking Critically About Abortion Nathan Nobis, Kristina Grob, 2019-06-19 This book introduces readers to the many arguments and controversies concerning abortion. While it argues for ethical and legal positions on the issues, it focuses on how to think about the issues, not just what to think about them. It is an ideal resource to improve your understanding of what people think, why they think that and whether their (and your) arguments are good or bad, and why. It's ideal for classroom use, discussion groups, organizational learning, and personal reading. From the Preface To many people, abortion is an issue for which discussions and debates are frustrating and fruitless: it seems like no progress will ever be made towards any understanding, much less resolution or even compromise. Judgments like these, however, are premature because some basic techniques from critical thinking, such as carefully defining words and testing definitions, stating the full structure of arguments so each step of the reasoning can be examined, and comparing the strengths and weaknesses of different explanations can help us make progress towards these goals. When emotions run high, we sometimes need to step back and use a passion for calm, cool, critical thinking. This helps us better understand the positions and arguments of people who see things differently from us, as well as our own positions and arguments. And we can use critical thinking skills help to try to figure out which positions are best, in terms of being supported by good arguments: after all, we might have much to learn from other people, sometimes that our own views should change, for the better. Here we use basic critical thinking skills to argue that abortion is typically not morally wrong. We begin with less morally-controversial claims: adults, children and babies are wrong to kill and wrong to kill, fundamentally, because they, we, are conscious, aware and have feelings. We argue that since early fetuses entirely lack these characteristics, they are not inherently wrong to kill and so most abortions are not morally wrong, since most abortions are done early in pregnancy, before consciousness and feeling develop in the fetus. Furthermore, since the right to life is not the right to someone else’s body, fetuses might not have the right to the pregnant woman’s body—which she has the right to—and so she has the right to not allow the fetus use of her body. This further justifies abortion, at least until technology allows for the removal of fetuses to other wombs. Since morally permissible actions should be legal, abortions should be legal: it is an injustice to criminalize actions that are not wrong. In the course of arguing for these claims, we: 1. discuss how to best define abortion; 2. dismiss many common “question-begging” arguments that merely assume their conclusions, instead of giving genuine reasons for them; 3. refute some often-heard “everyday arguments” about abortion, on all sides; 4. explain why the most influential philosophical arguments against abortion are unsuccessful; 5. provide some positive arguments that at least early abortions are not wrong; 6. briefly discuss the ethics and legality of later abortions, and more. This essay is not a “how to win an argument” piece or a tract or any kind of apologetics. It is not designed to help anyone “win” debates: everybody “wins” on this issue when we calmly and respectfully engage arguments with care, charity, honesty and humility. This book is merely a reasoned, systematic introduction to the issues that we hope models these skills and virtues. Its discussion should not be taken as absolute “proof” of anything: much more needs to be understood and carefully discussed—always. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Catechism of the Catholic Church U.S. Catholic Church, 2012-11-28 Over 3 million copies sold! Essential reading for Catholics of all walks of life. Here it is - the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholics around the world commonly believe. The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the Sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of saints. It comes with a complete index, footnotes and cross-references for a fuller understanding of every subject. The word catechism means instruction - this book will serve as the standard for all future catechisms. Using the tradition of explaining what the Church believes (the Creed), what she celebrates (the Sacraments), what she lives (the Commandments), and what she prays (the Lord's Prayer), the Catechism of the Catholic Church offers challenges for believers and answers for all those interested in learning about the mystery of the Catholic faith. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a positive, coherent and contemporary map for our spiritual journey toward transformation. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Abortion and the Christian Tradition Margaret D. Kamitsuka, 2019-10-29 Abortion remains the most contested political issue in American life. Poll results have remained surprisingly constant over the years, with roughly equal numbers supporting and opposing it. A common perception is that abortion is contrary to Christian teaching and values. While some have challenged that perception, few have attempted a comprehensive critique and constructive counterargument on Christian ethical and theological grounds.Margaret Kamitsuka begins with a careful examination of the churchs biblical and historical record, refuting the assumption that Christianity has always condemned abortion or that it considered personhood as beginning at the moment of conception. She then offers carefully crafted ethical arguments about the pregnant womans authority to make reproductive decisions and builds a theological rationale for seeing abortion as something other than a sin. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Beating Hearts Sherry F. Colb, Michael C. Dorf, 2016-03-08 How can someone who condemns hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation also favor legal abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? The authors of Beating Hearts aim to reconcile this apparent conflict and examine the surprisingly similar strategic and tactical questions faced by activists in the pro-life and animal rights movements. Beating Hearts maintains that sentience, or the ability to have subjective experiences, grounds a being's entitlement to moral concern. The authors argue that nearly all human exploitation of animals is unjustified. Early abortions do not contradict the sentience principle because they precede fetal sentience, and Beating Hearts explains why the mere potential for sentience does not create moral entitlements. Late abortions do raise serious moral questions, but forcing a woman to carry a child to term is problematic as a form of gender-based exploitation. These ethical explorations lead to a wider discussion of the strategies deployed by the pro-life and animal rights movements. Should legal reforms precede or follow attitudinal changes? Do gory images win over or alienate supporters? Is violence ever principled? By probing the connections between debates about abortion and animal rights, Beating Hearts uses each highly contested set of questions to shed light on the other. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: The Turnaway Study Diana Greene Foster, 2021-06 Now with a new afterword by the author--Back cover. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Love Suzanne DeWitt Hall, 2019-11-11 Abortion is one of the most hotly debated issues facing Western society today. Good-hearted people have firmly held convictions on both sides of the argument, often closing their minds and hearts to the truths spoken by those who disagree with them. Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Love walks you through a series of meditations to try to discern a third way of viewing the issue, with God at the center. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Pro-Choice and Christian Kira Schlesinger, 2017-10-10 Despite the claim by many Christian leaders that the pro-life/antiabortion position is the only faithful response to the debate about reproductive rights, many people of faith find themselves in a murky middle of this supposedly black-and-white issue. Christians who are pro-abortion rights are rarely pro-abortion. However, they view the decision to carry a pregnancy to term as one to be made by the woman, her medical team, her family, or personal counsel rather than by politicians. Pro-Choice and Christian explores the biblical, theological, political, and medical aspects of the debate in order to provide a thoughtful Christian argument for a pro-choice position with regard to abortion issues. Kira Schlesinger considers relevant Scriptures, the politics of abortion in the United States, and the human realities making abortion a vital issue of justice and compassion. By examining choice from a Christian perspective, Schlesinger provides a common vocabulary for discussing faith and reproductive rights. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Persuasive Pro Life, 2nd Ed: How to Talk about Our Culture's Toughest Issue Trent Horn, 2023-07-20 Not sure how to defend pre-born life? Whatever the reason for this fear, it causes many of us to pass up opportunities to speak out on behalf of the unborn. You can overcome this fear, says Trent Horn in this new and revised edition of his bestselling classic. In Persuasive Pro-Life- 2nd Edition, you can become a bold and effective apologist for life. Drawing on the latest developments in the post-Roe landscape, Horn helps you cut through the rhetoric of the pro-choice side in order to accurately frame the legal, historical, and scientific issues surrounding abortion. Then he demonstrates--with vivid personal examples from his years of campus activism, how to be charitable, he offers real-life examples on what to say, and what not to say. We must be not just warriors for the pro-life cause, he says, but ambassadors for it. Read Persuasive Pro-Life- 2nd Edition today, and never again be afraid to speak up for the precious and fundamental right to life. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: A Complicated Choice Katey Zeh, 2022-02-15 Too often, the public abortion debate depicts the experience of ending a pregnancy in falsely simplistic terms. Anti-abortion activists falsely contend that abortion is always emotionally damaging for the pregnant person, while pro-choice activists focus on honoring bodily autonomy and personal conscience without always giving voice to the nuances of abortion itself. In particular, the pro-choice movement fails to acknowledge that some people experience abortion as a kind of loss. A Complicated Choice addresses the fact that abortion stigma is ubiquitous, even among those who identify as pro-choice. We have not been supportive of people who have abortions, especially those whose experiences are complicated and involve grief and loss. Bringing the reader along the journeys of those who have had abortions, Rev. Katey Zeh opens up space for the complexities of our reproductive lives, giving voice to the experiences of grief, loss, and healing surrounding abortion experiences. She weaves these personal stories with key insights from the fields of psychology, theology, and public policy to illuminate the systemic injustices that undergird the conditions that shape a person's decision to end a pregnancy. A Complicated Choice goes beyond the falsely simplistic terms pro-life and pro-choice that define the public abortion debate and centers the real people making the decision to end a pregnancy in the context of their full lives and circumstances. A call to people of faith and to all people to examine our judgments about people who have abortions, we are invited into the act of sacred listening to the real stories of those most impacted. By focusing on these experiences, we will be drawn away from the stalemate of debate and into a spiritual response rooted in compassion for those who end pregnancies. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Abortion Politics Ziad Munson, 2018-05-21 Abortion has remained one of the most volatile and polarizing issues in the United States for over four decades. Americans are more divided today than ever over abortion, and this debate colors the political, economic, and social dynamics of the country. This book provides a balanced, clear-eyed overview of the abortion debate, including the perspectives of both the pro-life and pro-choice movements. It covers the history of the debate from colonial times to the present, the mobilization of mass movements around the issue, the ways it is understood by ordinary Americans, the impact it has had on US political development, and the differences between the abortion conflict in the US and the rest of the world. Throughout these discussions, Ziad Munson demonstrates how the meaning of abortion has shifted to reflect the changing anxieties and cultural divides which it has come to represent. Abortion Politics is an invaluable companion for exploring the abortion issue and what it has to say about American society, as well as the dramatic changes in public understanding of women’s rights, medicine, religion, and partisanship. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights Katha Pollitt, 2014-10-14 Argues that abortion is a common part of a woman's reproductive life and should not be vilified, but instead accepted as a moral right that can be a force for social good. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Abortion Rights Kate Greasley, Christopher Kaczor, 2018 Presents critical and forcefully argued debate between two moral philosophers, setting out strong cases on both sides of the argument. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Beyond the Abortion Wars Charles C. Camosy, 2015-04-30 The abortion debate in the United States is confused. Ratings-driven media coverage highlights extreme views and creates the illusion that we are stuck in a hopeless stalemate. In this book Charles Camosy argues that our polarized public discourse hides the fact that most Americans actually agree on the major issues at stake in abortion morality and law. Unpacking the complexity of the abortion issue, Camosy shows that placing oneself on either side of the typical polarizations -- pro-life vs. pro-choice, liberal vs. conservative, Democrat vs. Republican -- only serves to further confuse the debate and limits our ability to have fruitful dialogue. Camosy then proposes a new public policy that he believes is consistent with the beliefs of the broad majority of Americans and supported by the best ideas and arguments about abortion from both secular and religious sources. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion Daniel A. Dombrowski, Robert John Deltete, 2000 The Catholic church has always opposed abortion, but -- contrary to popular belief -- not always for the same reasons. This tightly argued, historically grounded study sets out to demonstrate that a pro-choice stance, now held by a significant minority of Catholics, is as fully justified by Catholic thought as an anti-abortion view, and may even be more compatible with Catholic tradition than the current opposition to abortion espoused by many Catholics and most Catholic leaders. A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion argues that the current Catholic anti-abortion stance is justified neither by modern embryology nor by ancient church teachings. Combining up-to-date information on fetal development with a thorough grasp of the works of the church's early thinkers, Daniel A. Dombrowski and Robert Deltete expose crucial contradictions between the early and the modern church's views of abortion. Returning to the writings of two pillars of early Christian thought, Sts. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, the authors show that abortion was originally condemned by the church on the grounds of perversity, since it nullified the only permissible reason for sexual relations: procreation. Only in more recent times has the view arisen of abortion as indefensible on the ontological grounds that human personhood begins at the moment of conception. The authors demonstrate that the early church's view of fetal development -- delayed hominization, in which the fetus is endowed with a human soul only when it achieves a physical human body -- is diametrically opposed to the current anti-abortion stance. In fact, the authors show, the insistence on immediate hominization that provides thefoundation for the current pro-life view stems from two seventeenth-century scientific misconceptions -- preformationism and the homunculus -- that have since been thoroughly discredited. By considering the history of Catholic thought in its relation to the history of science, Dombrowski and Deltete bring a new level of detail and focus to the abortion debate. Their thoughtful, measured argument provides a fresh perspective that will benefit participants on all sides of the controversy. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Undivided Rights Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, Elena Gutiérrez, 2016-04-18 Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice—on their own behalf. Undivided Rights presents a textured understanding of the reproductive rights movement by placing the experiences, priorities, and activism of women of color in the foreground. Using historical research, original organizational case studies, and personal interviews, the authors illuminate how women of color have led the fight to control their own bodies and reproductive destinies. Undivided Rights shows how women of color—-starting within their own Latina, African American, Native American, and Asian American communities—have resisted coercion of their reproductive abilities. Projected against the backdrop of the mainstream pro-choice movement and radical right agendas, these dynamic case studies feature the groundbreaking work being done by health and reproductive rights organizations led by women-of-color. The book details how and why these women have defined and implemented expansive reproductive health agendas that reject legalistic remedies and seek instead to address the wider needs of their communities. It stresses the urgency for innovative strategies that push beyond the traditional base and goals of the mainstream pro-choice movement—strategies that are broadly inclusive while being specific, strategies that speak to all women by speaking to each woman. While the authors raise tough questions about inclusion, identity politics, and the future of women’s organizing, they also offer a way out of the limiting focus on choice. Undivided Rights articulates a holistic vision for reproductive freedom. It refuses to allow our human rights to be divvied up and parceled out into isolated boxes that people are then forced to pick and choose among. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America Christina Page, 2008-07-31 A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to change the debate over reproductive rights in this country wholesale. As activist and writer Cristina Page shows, the gains made by birth-control advocates (historically) and pro-choice organizations (currently) have formed the bedrock of freedoms few Americans would choose to live without. Now, not only is the future of legal abortion far from guaranteed, in many parts of the country ready access to many forms of contraception is in jeopardy as well. And that development, Page argues, should have everyone, regardless of moral or political persuasion, deeply concerned. For these basic freedoms are not just for the freewheeling gals of Sex and the City, but are central to the lives of working mothers and fathers from Phoenix to Duluth, churchgoers and nonbelievers alike. Page crystallizes the thoughts and attitudes of a generation of women and men whose voices are seldom heard in the political arena. How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America is the first book to address the positive transformation our society has undergone because of our ability to plan when and if to have children. It also exposes the anti-choice movement's far-reaching-and dangerous-agenda. Fresh, bold, and stocked with counterintuitive arguments, this is a book bound to form the basis for heated conversations nationwide. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Civil Liberties Tom Head, 2009-08 Presents a global history of civil liberties, discussing what they are and why they are important, along with advice on ways to defend civil liberties. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: The Pro-Life Playbook Jordan D Groff, 2022-01-02 In a politically charged environment, the topic of abortion often sparks strong emotional responses. Friendships have been lost and family ties have been broken solely on the disagreement of this issue. Is there a possible resolution between Pro-life and Pro-choice advocates? Can we begin to understand each other? The Pro-life Playbook is an argument by argument counter to every mainstream Pro-choice talking point wrapped into one convenient, easy to read book. A useful resource for readers of all age groups and all political persuasions, this book provides a thorough breakdown of the principles surrounding the abortion debate and works to reach the climax of the discussion by finding the most scientifically justified definition of intrinsic value. Utilizing religion-free logical counters to the Pro-choice perspective, this book focuses on the scientific justification of the Pro-life viewpoint. As the political environment around the abortion debate continues to swirl, this book is your guide to a grounded and logical perspective. Jordan Groff is a lifelong pro-life advocate and has dedicated the past five years to expanding his research and knowledge on the science of abortion. He is focused on educating current and future generations about the intrinsic value of human life and would like this book to help other advocates begin their journey in fighting for the right to life for those that are the most helpless among us - the unborn. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Defenders of the Unborn Daniel K. Williams, 2016 Provocative and insightful, Defenders of the Unborn is a must-read for anyone who craves a deeper understanding of a highly-charged issue--Provided by publisher. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Abortion and Dialogue Ruth Colker, 1992-09-22 Investigating both feminism and theology, Colker, a law professor at Tulane University, describes her moral and intellectual odyssey towards a moderate pro-choice position on abortion. Though the book, which includes close analyses of several importantcases, often recalls the dry style of a law review, Colker thoughtfully argues that the right to abortion would be better premised on guarantees of equal protection than on the right to privacy. She looks at case studies regarding sexual activity, contraception and abortion and suggests that ``a coercive social environment'' prevents women from making real choices and thus deprives them of the power to control their reproductive lives. However, in the Roe v. Wade abortion case, the state refused to acknowledge women's interest in protecting their health and well-being while the plaintiff refused to acknowledge the state's interest in protecting fetal life. Colker laments that neither side in the recent Webster case acknowledged these issues and thus hampered good-faith dialogue on abortion. A societal focus on abortion, she also notes, ignores longer-term strategies for reproductive health. (Sept.) Publisher's Weekly. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: After Roe Mary Ziegler, 2015-06-08 Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural and political responses to the landmark 1973 ruling in the decade that followed. The grassroots activists who shaped the discussion after Roe, Mary Ziegler shows, were far more fluid and diverse than the partisans dominating the debate today. In the early years after the decision, advocates on either side of the abortion battle sought common ground on issues from pregnancy discrimination to fetal research. Drawing on archives and more than 100 interviews with key participants, Ziegler’s revelations complicate the view that abortion rights proponents were insensitive to larger questions of racial and class injustice, and expose as caricature the idea that abortion opponents were inherently antifeminist. But over time, “pro-abortion” and “anti-abortion” positions hardened into “pro-choice” and “pro-life” categories in response to political pressures and compromises. This increasingly contentious back-and-forth produced the interpretation now taken for granted—that Roe was primarily a ruling on a woman’s right to choose. Peering beneath the surface of social-movement struggles in the 1970s, After Roe reveals how actors on the left and the right have today made Roe a symbol for a spectrum of fervently held political beliefs. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Radical Reproductive Justice Loretta Ross, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, Lynn Roberts, Pamela Bridgewater, 2017-10-16 Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding reproductive rights to include issues of environmental justice, incarceration, poverty, disability, and more, this crucial anthology explores the practical applications for activist thought migrating from the community into the academy. Radical Reproductive Justice assembles two decades’ of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, creators of the human rights-based “reproductive justice” framework to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. Rooted in Black feminism and built on intersecting identities, this revolutionary framework asserts a woman's right to have children, to not have children, and to parent and provide for the children they have. The book is as revolutionary and revelatory as it is vast. —Rewire |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: The Making of Pro-life Activists Ziad W. Munson, 2010-07-15 How do people become activists for causes they care deeply about? Many people with similar backgrounds, for instance, fervently believe that abortion should be illegal, but only some of them join the pro-life movement. By delving into the lives and beliefs of activists and nonactivists alike, Ziad W. Munson is able to lucidly examine the differences between them. Through extensive interviews and detailed studies of pro-life organizations across the nation, Munson makes the startling discovery that many activists join up before they develop strong beliefs about abortion—in fact, some are even pro-choice prior to their mobilization. Therefore, Munson concludes, commitment to an issue is often a consequence rather than a cause of activism. The Making of Pro-life Activists provides a compelling new model of how people become activists while also offering a penetrating analysis of the complex relationship between religion, politics, and the pro-life movement. Policy makers, activists on both sides of the issue, and anyone seeking to understand how social movements take shape will find this book essential. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Trusting Doubt Valerie Tarico, 2017-05-15 Christians strive to follow the example of Jesus. But a belief that the Bible is literally true puts them in the odd position of defending falsehood, bigotry, or violence. This award-winning book is for those who suspect that some Christian beliefs are manmade and flawed. Are you ready to let reason and conscience guide your spiritual journey? |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: The Case for Life Scott Klusendorf, 2009-03-10 Pro-life Christians, take heart: the pro-life message can compete in the marketplace of ideas-provided Christians properly understand and articulate that message. Too many Christians do not understand the essential truths of the pro-life position, making it difficult for them to articulate a biblical worldview on issues like abortion, cloning, and embryo research. The Case for Life provides intellectual grounding for the pro-life convictions that most evangelicals hold. Author Scott Klusendorf first simplifies the debate: the sanctity of life is not a morally complex issue. It's not about choice, privacy, or scientific progress. To the contrary, the debate turns on one key question: What is the unborn? From there readers learn how to engage the great bio-tech debate of the twenty-first century, how to answer objections persuasively, and what the role of the pro-life pastor should be. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Life's Work Willie J. Parker, 2017-04-04 An outspoken Christian reproductive-justice advocate draws on his upbringing in the Deep South and his experiences as a physician and abortion provider to explain why he believes that helping women in need without judgment is in accordance with Christian values. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense? Stephen Kershnar, 2017-10-03 This book looks at a family of views involving the pro-life view of abortion and Christianity. These issues are important because major religious branches (for example, Catholicism and some large branches of Evangelicalism) and leading politicians assert, or are committed to, the following: (a) it is permissible to prevent some people from going to hell, (b) abortion prevents some people from going to hell, and (c) abortion is wrong. They also assert, or are committed to, the following: (d) it is permissible to use defensive violence to prevent people from killing innocents, (e) doctors who perform abortions kill innocents, and (f) it is wrong to use defensive violence against doctors who perform abortions. Stephen Kershnar argues that these and other principles are inconsistent. Along the way, he explores the ways in which theories of hell, right forfeiture, and good consequences relate to each other and the above inconsistencies. |
| abortion pro life vs pro choice: Understanding Abortion Stephen D. Schwarz, Kiki Latimer, 2012 Books on abortion (other than collections of readings) typically express and defend a particular position. This book gives both sides, as evenly and objectively as possible; it gets to the heart of each position, the core idea which animates it. It then leaves the reader to make up his or her own mind. It is an introduction to the issue, not only to the basic positions on the issue. Despite being brief, it contains careful analyses and discussions of many topics often not found at all in other works. The treatment is thorough and detailed, but succinct. Understanding Abortion: From Mixed Feelings to Rational Thought is aimed at all people who want a better understanding of what the two sides on this issue are really saying, and what reasons they give for their position. Many people assume that this issue is an interminable one, with no clear answers; a purely emotional debate that cannot be addressed by the use of reasoned arguments. The book shows that this is not the case. |
THE BEST PRO-LIFE ARGUMENTS - Family Research Council
“pro-choice”20 community itself. Mention “Pro-choice” feminist Naomi Wolf, who in a ground-breaking article in 1996, argued that the abortion-rights community should acknowledge the “fetus, in its full humanity” and that abortion causes “a real death.”21 More recently, Kate Michelman, long-time president of NARAL Pro-Choice
Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice
The pro-life position maintains that the fetus is a life; hence abortion should be crimina lized. Consequent ly, the pro- life camp situates its posi-tion around moral claims regarding the sanctity of life. In a published debate on pro-life versus pro-choice positions on the issue of abortion,
KILLING OR TERMINATING PRO-LIFE VS PRO-CHOICE ABORTION …
The pro-choice camp, on the other hand, often frames its arguments based on the presupposition that pro-life supporters are characterized by “backwardness.” Interest-ingly enough, both sides often refer to one another as “murderers”, with pro-life sup-porters referring to killing fetuses, and pro-choice referring to killing pregnant women
Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Can Work Together - documents.sfcg.org
In 1993 I was co-director of the Network for Life and Choice, a new project of the Washington, DC-based Search for Common Ground. We began by working with the Buffalo Coalition for Common Ground, a group of pro-life and pro-choice advocates, to bridge deep divisions about abortion in Buffalo, New York.
Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of
11 Aug 2022 · Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of post-Soviet Armenia Sofia Lopatina1*, Veronica Kostenko2 and Eduard Ponarin3 1Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 2Department of Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia, 3Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia
Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of
Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of post-Soviet Armenia Sofia Lopatina1*, Veronica Kostenko2 and Eduard Ponarin3 1Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 2Department of Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia, 3Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia
Fetal Discourses and the Politics of the Womb - Taylor & Francis …
reviews the pro-life vs. pro-choice framework as developed in the US and compares it with other discourses and frameworks from the Philippines and Iran, to show how these have evolved and had an impact on abortion rights. The US was chosen because this is where the pro-life vs. pro-choice framework remains the strongest, even
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW MANAGEMENT
Analysis of Pro-Life Vs Pro-Choice Debates: Abortion and LGBTQIA Rights MAHIKA SURI1 AND SHYAMA ARUN SINGH2 ABSTRACT This paper aims to give readers an insight into the world of abortion dynamics across the globe. Despite living in the 21st century, today’s world is witnessing numerous restrictions on women’s liberty when it comes to ...
ABORTION, THE MARGINALIZED, AND THE VULNERABLE: A …
Let’s now move to the pro-life camp. The pro-life movement has also been driven by a commitment to human rights in the face of perceived egregious injustice. In this case, the taking of an innocent human life by someone with more power who 8. Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), 5. For an
Pro- Choi C e and Christian - Westminster John Knox Press
drawn in the sand quite clearly: pro-life vs. pro-choice, republican vs. democrat, the right to life of the unborn vs. the right to privacy of the woman, a Christian (mean- ... denominations have some sort of statement on abortion (including several that are pro- choice), i would wager that most people in the pews are not aware of these statements
Ethical Standards of Abortion Care - National Abortion Federation
as a guide for practitioners involved in abortion care. This document provides a common ethical framework for abortion providers. These ethical principles are intended to guide decision making in the challenging situations abortion providers face when providing health care or interacting with the broader medical or non-medical community.
Anti-choice and Pro-choice Groups in Canada
o Pro-Choice Society of Lethbridge & Southern Alberta (Pro-Choice YQL) (charity) o Pro-Choice Southwestern Ontario (ON) o Red Deer & Area Pro -Choice (AB) o Regina Abortion Support Network o Reproductive Justice New Brunswick (aka Choix NB Choice ) o Reproductive Rights Roundtable (Cowichan Valley, BC) o Riposte féministe (Ottawa/Gatineau) o ...
Rights to Abortion, Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life: Case of Indonesia …
Fernros, 2018). Many pro-life advocates, on the other hand, highlight the rights of the fetus. The two opposing sides frequently employ broad stereotypes to describe each other, with pro-lifers calling pro-choice supporters "pro-abortion" and pro-choice supporters "pro-life." According to Smith and Son (Smith & Son, 2013), just around
about the morality of abortion—both pro-life and pro-choice—and
In Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life, Jeffrey Reiman pro poses to do three things: to offer a survey of Western attitudes toward abortion from antiquity to the present, including a qualified defense of the majority decision in Roe v. Wade\ to review "the main arguments about the morality of abortion—both pro-life and pro-choice—and
“I am not pro-abortion; I am pro-choice”: How euphemisms shape ...
For all of our terms, even the ones generally associated with pro-choice beliefs (pro-choice and reproductive rights), we found very few utterances from pro-choice speakers, as Table 1 shows. This could indicate that pro-life speakers talk about abortion more often, or that our corpus had a greater number of speeches from pro-life supporters ...
I. A TRADITIONAL ANTI-ABORTION ARGUMENT - JSTOR
II. SOME RECENT PRO-ABORTION ARGUMENTS Before getting to the Kantian approach, let us consider three arguments in defense of abortion. A common utilitarian argument goes this way: Anything having a balance of good results (considering everyone) is morally permissible. Abortion often has a balance of good results (considering every-one).
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citing authorities from the “pro-choice”20 community itself. Mention “Pro-choice” feminist Naomi Wolf, who in a ground-breaking article in 1996, argued that the abortion-rights community should acknowledge the “fetus, in its full humanity” and that abortion causes “a real death.”21
Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of post …
Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of post-Soviet Armenia Lopatina, Sofia; Kostenko, Veronica; Ponarin, Eduard ... resulting in anti-abortion laws in Poland and Hungary and anti-gender movements in the US and Latin America. This is also a
Religion and Life Revision Document - Turton School
Religion and Life Unit Content: 1. Types of Truth - Scientific, Religious and Historical. 2. Origins of The Universe – Big Bang Theory vs Genesis. 3. Origins and Value of Human Life – Adam and Eve vs Evolution. 4. Abortion – Pro-life vs Pro-choice. 5. Euthanasia – 4 types, Arguments for and against, Religious views. 6.
The Truth About Abortion Abortion does not save women’s lives.
Abortion does not save women’s lives. & Women’s Health Abortion is the direct and intentional killing of a child in the womb. Abortion is never medically necessary. It does not treat or solve any pregnancy-related complication. Outlawing abortion will not affect treatment for miscarriage. Treatment for miscarriage and abortion is not the ...
pro-choice: all the way to the sex-selection gallows - JSTOR
suspects of the pro-choice and pro-life lobbies, the fault lines emerged within the pro-choice lobby itself. As some evidence seemed to be emerging about the prevalence of sex-selective abortion in the United Kingdom, the debate revolved around the …
Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case
Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of ... pro-choice values, European Values Study, neo-traditionalism, post- ... resulting in anti-abortion laws in Poland
Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? Humanistic Buddhists’ Voices …
spectrum of Buddhist narratives challenges the pro-life vs. pro-choice mode of debate. Furthermore, the diversity of the narratives ... promoted by the pro-choice camp (Trumpy, 2016: 165). Abortion debates in the political arena of Taiwan are also divided into religious (led by Christian churches) and feminist camps. Nonetheless,
What does pro-choice realy mean? - Presbyterian Mission Agency
The most basic definition for pro-choice,and the one offered by Web-ster’s dictionary,is “favoring the legalization of abortion,”which is clearly what was meant when the term was first used in the mid-1970s. Following the Roe v.Wade decision by the Supreme Court in 1973,the legality of abortion was challenged and increasingly debated.Pro ...
Abortion: When Choice and Autonomy Conflict - Berkeley Law
choice. Choosing to have a child with Down syndrome is different from having the child without making a choice to do so.21 Dworkin notes that choices can also be undesirable because the existence of a choice can open the actor up to pressure.22 Consider sex-selective abortion
THE PRO-LIFE AND PRO -CHOICE MOVEMENTS Deana A.
The pro-life movement opposes elective abortion on ethical and moral grounds. Pro-life advocates argue that an “unborn child” has a right to life and they strive
ABORTION, THE MARGINALIZED, AND THE VULNERABLE: A …
Let’s now move to the pro-life camp. The pro-life movement has also been driven by a commitment to human rights in the face of perceived egregious injustice. In this case, the taking of an innocent human life by someone with more power who 8. Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), 5. For an
Rawls, Children and Abortion - University of Glasgow
the conservative view in the abortion debate; this assumption is made possible by his smuggling in of the comprehensive moral doctrine that fetuses are not persons. Only someone who held this belief would regard the pro-life position as the only controversial one; equally, only a pro-lifer who imported this doctrine would argue
Pro-Choice “Personhood”: An Abortive Concept - UFFL
she secures an abortion to avoid some type of evil. Many pro-life philosophers have already addressed this reasoning head-on; they have played according to pro-choice rules and won. Such philosophers have grappled with the criteria offered by pro-choice philosophers, arguing that these criteria are hopelessly arbitrary,
What does pro-choice realy mean? - Presbyterian Church
The most basic definition for pro-choice,and the one offered by Web-ster’s dictionary,is “favoring the legalization of abortion,”which is clearly what was meant when the term was first used in the mid-1970s. Following the Roe v.Wade decision by the Supreme Court in 1973,the legality of abortion was challenged and increasingly debated.Pro ...
What Does Being Pro-Choice Really Mean? - Abortion Rights …
Anti-choice propaganda is focused on the pro-choice movement in two major ways: painting pro-choice supporters as “anti-baby” moral degenerates, and demeaning the purpose and work of clinics. Anti-choice groups accuse the pro-choice movement of believing a fetus to be “lumps of tissue” or “blobs”.
Women Who Have Abortions - National Abortion Federation
through abortion6. Religion Women who obtain abortions represent every religious affiliation. 13% of abortion patients describe themselves as born-again or Evangelical Christians4; while 22% of U.S. women are Catholic7, 27% of abortion patients say they are Catholics1. MYTH: Women are using abortion as a method of birth control.
What Is Medical Abortion? - National Abortion Federation
What Is Medical Abortion? Definition A medical abortion is one that is brought about by taking medications that will end a pregnancy. The alternative is surgical abortion, which ends a pregnancy by emptying the uterus (or womb) with special instruments. Either of two medications, mifepristone or methotrexate, can be used for medical abortion.
GCSE RE Revision Booklet - brockington.leics.sch.uk
Pro-Choice Vs. Pro-Life Pro-choice means women should have choice to choose an abortion. Key arguments include: The woman carries and gives birth to the child so she should decide whether to keep it. Life does not really start until to foetus is born or at least viable. The risk to the mother outweighs that of the baby.
Abortion Attitudes: An Overview of Demographic and Ideological …
viewed the #MeToo movement favorably compared to 71% of pro- choice supporters (Supermajority/ PerryUndem National Survey, 2019). The same poll also showed that 80% of pro-choice advocates, but only 47% of pro- life advocates, agreed that men and women should be equally represented in po-sitions of power.
Pro-Choice Postcard Party Toolkit - Reproductive Freedom for All
that their constituents are pro-choice and that we’ll be expecting them to fight for our reproductive freedom in 2019. Sample Invitation Appendix: Tools for your party That’s why I’m joining other NARAL Pro-Choice America members around the country and hosting a Pro-Choice Postcard Party where we will take action and get
Pro-Choice Films - Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada
orphanage. He learns about childbirth and abortion from the headmaster and struggles with his own morals and lack of worldliness. Citizen Ruth This film is a smart comedy about a woman in the United States who unexpectedly becomes pregnant. She finds herself at the centre of the abortion debate as anti-choice and pro-choice people try to convince
Pro-Child/Pro-Choice: An Exercise in Doubethink? - JSTOR
gans between "pro-life" advocates and "pro-choice" advocates, who sup-port a policy of abortion-on-demand, one frequently sees bumperstickers ... estimated that about one-half of all American women will have an abortion some time during her life.4 A growing number of women are also having more than one abortion.
GCSE RE Revision Booklet - brockington.leics.sch.uk
Pro-Choice Vs. Pro-Life Pro-choice means women should have choice to choose an abortion. Key arguments include: The woman carries and gives birth to the child so she should decide whether to keep it. Life does not really start until to foetus is born or at least viable. The risk to the mother outweighs that of the baby.
CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS LIE - Reproductive Freedom …
health clinics. CPCs outnumber abortion clinics, and for a majority of American women, CPCs are easier to access than legitimate reproductive health clinics location wise.23 24 • 95% of Minnesota counties don’t have an abortion provider, but there are over 90 CPCs in the state, outnumbering abortion providers by 15-to-1.25
Americans’ Opinions on Abortion - Knights of Columbus
Pro-Choice. Pro-Life. Unsure. 43%. 4%. Americans. When asked to align with one side of the abortion debate, a majority of Americans describe themselves as pro-choice. On the issue of abortion, do you consider yourself pro-life or pro -choice? Pro-Life. Pro-Choice
Members of Parliament with an Anti-choice Stance
Page 2 of 6 ***Pro-choice MPs: Estimate includes Conservative MPs with a public pro-choice position and/or pro-choice voting record. It also includes all Liberal MPs except the anti-choice or indeterminate ones, and all MPs from all other parties based on the assumption they are pro-choice or will vote pro-choice.
Abortion: choosing between medical or surgical abortion - NICE
Rates of incomplete abortion were statistically significantly lower with surgical abortion compared with medical abortion (2.8% vs. 13.0%, risk ratio [RR] 4.58, 95% CI 1.07 to 19.64). Complications . These data are taken from 2 RCTs included in the evidence review on medical versus surgical abortion for the NICE abortion guideline.
Advocacy Resource Judaism and Abortion - National Council of …
Judaism and Abortion NCJW works to ensure that every single person can make their own moral and faith-informed decisions about their body, health, and future. Our ... Judaism values life and affirms that protecting existing life is paramount at all stages of pregnancy. A fetus is not considered a person under Jewish law and therefore
PRO‐CHOICE SLOGANS: A CRITIQUE - rtlofneo.com
Hence, to be pro‐choice in this debate is to be pro‐abortion. “Don’t Force Your Morality or Religion On Me” In the debate over abortion policy, one often hears the statement, “Don’t force your morality (or religion) on me.” This statement reflects the false premise that only pro‐life sentiments are based on morality or ...
More about Why ProLife? - Randy Alcorn
know, until today I’d never heard the pro-life position.” We pride ourselves on being open-minded and pro-viding a fair and fact-oriented education. Yet here was a fifty-five-year-old social science teacher with a master’s degree who’d never once heard the pro-life position. He had uncritically accepted the pro-choice position from
THE BEST PRO-LIFE ARGUMENTS FOR SECULAR …
citing authorities from the “pro-choice”20 community itself. Mention “Pro-choice” feminist Naomi Wolf, who in a ground-breaking article in 1996, argued that the abortion-rights community should acknowledge the “fetus, in its full humanity” and that abortion causes “a real death.”21
How To Talk About Abortion - Pro-Choice Washington
affordable, and timely abortion care. We are pro-abortion. Pro-abortion does not mean anti-pregnancy. It means that you are pro-access to the full range of reproductive health care services from contraception to abortion to fertility treatments and beyond. Terms like “pro-life” come straight from the anti-abortion playbook and are
THE BEST PRO-LIFE ARGUMENTS - Family Research Council
“pro-choice”20 community itself. Mention “Pro-choice” feminist Naomi Wolf, who in a ground-breaking article in 1996, argued that the abortion-rights community should acknowledge the “fetus, in its full humanity” and that abortion causes “a real death.”21 More recently, Kate Michelman, long-time president of NARAL Pro-Choice
How to Respond to Tough Questions and Avoid Anti-Choice Traps
babies who survive an abortion? Don’t say "partial-birth," "late-term," or "born alive." What you should avoid How to Respond to Tough Questions and Avoid Anti-Choice Traps Disinformation, charged rhetoric, and false information are flying around abortion—especially the rare cases of abortion later in pregnancy—and post-birth palliative care.
