Pro Choice Pro Life Arguments

  pro choice pro life arguments: 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!
  pro choice pro life arguments: The Turnaway Study Diana Greene Foster, 2021-06 Now with a new afterword by the author--Back cover.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, 2011-09-20 The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling professor of psychology Angela Duckworth. Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? Which should be feared more: snakes or french fries? Why do sumo wrestlers cheat? In this groundbreaking book, leading economist Steven Levitt—Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and winner of the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal for the economist under 40 who has made the greatest contribution to the discipline—reveals that the answers. Joined by acclaimed author and podcast host Stephen J. Dubner, Levitt presents a brilliant—and brilliantly entertaining—account of how incentives of the most hidden sort drive behavior in ways that turn conventional wisdom on its head.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: Arguments about Abortion Kate Greasley, 2017 What is the legal status of abortion and the human fetus? In an extended analysis of mainstream arguments involving abortion and the status of 'personhood' that is often applied to the fetus, this book provides novel answers to some of the core 'pro-life' arguments in favour of recognizing fetal personhood and moral rights.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: Three Approaches to Abortion Peter Kreeft, 2002-01-01 An author and professor presents the objective logical arguments against abortion; the subjective, personal motives of the pro-life position; and how these two factors influence the dialog between the two sides of the abortion issue.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: The Moral Case for Abortion Ann Furedi, 2016-07-27 This thought-provoking book sets out the ethical arguments for a woman’s right to choose. Drawing on the traditions of sociological thinking and moral philosophy, it maintains that there is a strong moral case for recognizing autonomy in personal decision-making about reproductive intentions. More than this, it argues that to prevent a woman from making her own choice to continue or end her pregnancy is to undermine the essence of her humanity. The author, a provider of abortion services in the UK, asserts that true respect for human life and true regard for individual conscience demand that we respect a woman’s right to decide, and that support for a woman’s right to a termination has moral foundations and ethical integrity. This fresh perspective on abortion will interest both pro- and anti-choice individuals and organizations, along with academics in the fields of gender studies, philosophy, ethics and religion.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: The Fetal Position Chris Meyers, 2010-06-22 Taking neither a pro-life nor a pro-choice stance, rather, using philosophical methodology, Meyers carefully scrutinizes the commonly voiced arguments for and against abortion with the aim of assessing them from a position that is as unbiased as possible.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: What to Say When Shawn Carney, Steve Karlen, 2021-09-07
  pro choice pro life arguments: Abortion and Social Responsibility Laurie Shrage, 2003 Shrage argues that Roe v Wade's regulatory scheme of a six-month time span for abortion on demand polarized the public and obscured alternatives with potentially broader support. She explores the origins of that scheme, then defends an alternate one--with a time span shorter than 6 months for non-therapeutic abortions--that could win broad support needed to make legal abortion services available to all women.
  pro choice pro life arguments: Breaking the Abortion Deadlock Eileen L. McDonagh, 1996 McDonagh's approach, by bridging the divide between pro-life and pro-choice advocates, revolutionizes the abortion debate in a way that opens up a whole new avenue for resolving the abortion conflict and advancing women's rights.
  pro choice pro life arguments: Socratic Logic 3e Pbk Peter Kreeft, 2010-01-12 Symbolic logic may be superior to classical Aristotelian logic for the sciences, but not for the humanities. This text is designed for do-it-yourselfers as well as classrooms.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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?
  pro choice pro life arguments: Politically Correct Death Francis Beckwith, 1993 The author explains and responds to ethical and philosophical arguments used to defend a pro-choice position. Key court decisions are also critiqued.
  pro choice pro life arguments: The Abortion Rights Debate Justin Healey, 2016-04-01
  pro choice pro life arguments: The Ethics of Abortion Christopher Kaczor, 2011 Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying fetal personhood, including the views of those who defend not only abortion but also infanticide. It also provides several (non-theological) justifications for the conclusion that all human beings, including those in utero, should be respected as persons. This book also critiques the view that abortion is not wrong even if the human fetus is a person. The Ethics of Abortion examines hard cases for those who are prolife, such as abortion in cases of rape or in order to save the motherâe(tm)s life, as well as hard cases for defenders of abortion, such as sex selection abortion and the rationale for being âeoepersonally opposedâe but publically supportive of abortion. It concludes with a discussion of whether artificial wombs might end the abortion debate. Answering the arguments of defenders of abortion, this book provides reasoned justification for the view that all intentional abortions are morally wrong and that doctors and nurses who object to abortion should not be forced to act against their consciences.
  pro choice pro life arguments: The Ethics of Abortion Robert M. Baird, Stuart E. Rosenbaum, 1993 This powerful collection of essays gained instant recognition as one of the first attempts to present both sides of the abortion debate in the words of leading proponents.
  pro choice pro life arguments: 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.
  pro choice pro life arguments: Dialogues on the Ethics of Abortion Bertha Alvarez Manninen, 2022-05-16 What happens when two intelligent and highly informed fictional college students, one strongly pro-choice and the other vigorously pro-life, are asked to put together a presentation on abortion? Their conversations over five days – friendly but lively, charitable but clear – are captured in this book. Through these dialogues, students and other interested readers are introduced to the difficult moral issues of abortion. In Chapter 1, readers learn about Roe v. Wade and other relevant legal cases. Chapter 2 covers basic, philosophical issues such as: What is a person? Are fetuses persons? Is fetal potential morally relevant? How shall we define the moral community? Chapter 3 introduces students to Don Marquis’s Why Abortion is Immoral and also the metaphysical issues of personal identity and its relevance to abortion. Chapter 4 covers Judith Jarvis Thomson’s A Defense of Abortion, including objections and responses to the argument from bodily autonomy. Finally, Chapter 5 looks at abortion in hard cases, such as in cases of rape, fetal disability, non-viable pregnancies, and sex-selection; the chapter also includes a conversation on fathers and abortion. With a Foreword by Laurie Shrage, topics headings in the margins, and an annotated bibliography, Dialogues on the Ethics of Abortion is an easy-to-use volume and valuable resource for anyone interested in a fair and clear-headed approach to one of the most contentious moral issues of our time.
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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

Persuasive Pro Life How To Talk About Our Cultures Toughest Issue
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.

PRO-X: A HISTORICAL APPROACH TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF THE LIFE ...
the fallacious arguments that form the foundation for a pro-x logic. vi CURRICULUM VITAE NAME OF AUTHOR: Claire Pickard GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS ATTENDED: ... of abortion do not correlate to pro-life/pro-choice identity labels. This is not a new revelation in the field of social and political philosophy, or even

BEYOND PRO-LIFE AND PRO-CHOICE ABORTION FROM A PRO …
The two ideologies i.e., Pro-Life and Pro-Choice have never rested in debating against each other.13 The pro-life position backs on the argument regarding the „sanctity‟ of life and how abortion leads to the violation of the right to life.14 On the other hand, the pro-choice position

What Is Missing from the Rhetoric of Choice - A Feminist Analysis …
achieve. The danger comes from the conclusion that being pro-choice instead of pro-life is equal to being pro-woman. The "pro-choice package" of presumed interrelated princi-ples is associated with the view that access to legal abortion al-lows women to opt out of their traditional role and decide not to be mothers.

APPLIED ETHICS: THE CONTROVERSIES ON ABORTION
Pro-life and pro-choice abortionist arguments are assessed extensively which pinpoints permissibility or impossibility of abortion. How the dispute of abortion associated with political outlooks was assessed in connection to prominent groups of abortion. A pregnant woman also aborts a fetus because of socio-economic matters and ...

SEASON 4: PRO LIFE - undeceptions.com
the pro-choice arguments, the arguments in favor of abortion, a really good run. ... But we're also going to road test the best pro-life arguments and see if they stack up. These arguments are less familiar and, as a result, less compelling in the public square. But if we're successful in this episode we'll at least convince you that the

Americans’ Opinions on Abortion - Knights of Columbus
Pro-life. Pro-choice. Americans . January 2024. 2. Five, abortion should be allowed only to save the life of the mother. 29%. 45%. 10%. 30%. 13%. 19%; 6%. 12%; 18%. 15%; 16%. 23%. 22%. 16%; 36%. 18%; 9%. 2%; 20%. 10%; 9%. 4%; 13%. 9%; Restrictions on Abortion. One, abortion should be available to a woman any time she wants one during her entire ...

THE BEST PRO-LIFE ARGUMENTS - frc.org
“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 Defend Your Pro-Life Views in 5 Minutes or Less
Pro-life advocates contend that elective abortion unjustly takes the life of a defenseless ... In other words, arguments based on “choice” or “privacy” miss the point entirely. Would anyone that you know support a mother killing her toddler in the name of “choice and who decides?” Clearly, if the unborn are human,

Fetal Discourses and the Politics of the Womb - Taylor & Francis …
as ‘‘pro-life’’ in an effort to project the other side as being ‘‘anti-life’’, life here referring only to that of the fetus. While this pro-life vs. pro-choice framework is an important one, there are other discourses* around abortion rights, shaped by different …

Abortion: The Relevance of Personhood. A Critique of Dworkin …
the disagreement between "pro-life" and "pro-choice". However, while I agree that the concept of the person has fuzzy edges, I can't see why that should dis qualify the person-view. For the fuzziness is not the source of the problem in the first place. It is equally counter-intuitive to ascribe personhood to the fertilized

Women’s Rights and Unborn Life: The Development of Pro-Choice and Pro ...
pro-choice arguments as long as I have been aware of the political debate over abortion. However, as I began considering writing my thesis on a topic related to reproductive health and justice in my junior year of college, I found myself also being interested in …

Pro Life Answers To Pro Choice Arguments / S Nieto [PDF] www ...
"Pro Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments" continue to grapple with central themes: the moral status of the fetus, the rights of the pregnant person, the role of the government in regulating reproductive healthcare, and the availability of resources for pregnant individuals and adoptive families. Recent developments like advancements in genetic

Scriptural Foundations for the Pro-Life Position - UFFL
for the Pro-Life Position William S. Kurz, S.J. Synopsis: ... INTRODUCTION A major point of contention in arguments between pro-lifers and their antagonists is the charge that pro-lifers are making a fundamentalist use of Scripture in defending their positions. The ... choice. It is common knowledge how for decades the Bible has been ...

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.

Ethical Standards of Abortion Care - National Abortion Federation
2 | National Abortion Federation A clinician-patient relationship is generally created by mutual consent. Except in a medical emergency, a provider may decline to accept a patient for legitimate reasons consistent with the non-discrimination

PRO-LIFE
10 Mar 2024 · of 15% pro-choice students we reach on campuses. Our mission, however, cannot be accomplished without the diligence of ... pro-life arguments and stand with you. The support of a group assures that you are not alone in your position. Encourage your students to get involved

Nine months a slave: when pregnancy is involuntary servitude to
self-determination, compared to the future life. At the core of this argument is an expectation that women bear the burden of pregnancy, includ-ing under coercion, in order to benefit another. In this perspective essay, we move away from the “pro-choice”, “anti-choice”, “pro-life” and “anti-life” arguments. These arguments have

The Abortion Debate in America - Sacred Heart University
First, let us examine the pro-life position. The primary pro-life argument centers on morality, saying that abortion is an immoral act of murder. This notion is founded upon the Christian faith, which believes human life begins at conception (Paul II, 1994). Pro-lifers argue that humans are full of life even in their embryonic and fetal stages of

Pro Life Answers To Pro Choice Arguments - Hussin A.Rothana …
3 Pro Life Answers To Pro Choice Arguments Published at www.grampiancaredata.gov.uk following: Fetal Personhood: Pro-life advocates argue that the fetus is a human being with a right to life from conception, regardless of viability or sentience. They often cite scientific evidence of fetal development and appeal to philosophical arguments ...

Pro Life Answers To Pro Choice Arguments , JG Myers Copy www ...
"Pro Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments" continue to grapple with central themes: the moral status of the fetus, the rights of the pregnant person, the role of the government in regulating reproductive healthcare, and the availability of resources for pregnant individuals and adoptive families. Recent developments like advancements in genetic

Representing suicide: Giving voice to a desire to die? - SAGE Journals
Online ethnography of ‘pro-choice’ discussions online ‘Pro-choice’ forums have been around in one form or another since before the World Wide Web, beginning in 1990 with alt.suicide.holiday (a.s.h.), an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup. Starting as a discussion on the possible connections between holiday seasons

WHY PRO-LIFE ARGUMENTS STILL ARE NOT CONVINCING:
In the 1article ‘Pro-life arguments against infanticide and why they are not convincing’, I defended Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva’s now famous article ‘After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live’2 against criticism from the pro-life philosophers such as Christopher Kaczor.3 I argued that arguments from pro-life position are

164 CHAPTER TWO: ABORTION An Argument That Abortion Is …
right to life so that fetuses will fall outside of it. This explains, in part, why the standard pro­ choice arguments in the philosophical literature appeal to the criterion of being a person (Fein­ berg, 1986; Tooley, 1972; Warren, 1973; Benn, 1973; Engelhardt, 1986). This criterion appears

The Benefits of Legalization of Abortion in the Philippines
The Benefits of Legalization of Abortion in the Philippines Rio Michelle A. Corrales* The paper proposes that abortion should be legalized in the

THE BEST PRO-LIFE ARGUMENTS - Family Research Council
The Best Pro-Life Arguments for Secular Audiences by cathy cleaver ruse, esq. rob schwarzwalder cathy cleaver ruse is Senior Fellow for Legal Studies ... “Pro-choice” responses Some defenders of abortion will concede the sci-entific proofs but will argue that the entity in the womb is still not, or not yet, a “person.” ...

Various Arguments within the Pro- Choice Movement - GradesFixer
of real-life situations, such as cases of fetal abnormalities, maternal health risks, and instances of sexual assault. Category 4: Socioeconomic Factors and Equity ... This classification of pro-choice arguments underscores the importance of respectful dialogue and empathy within the ongoing discourse surrounding abortion rights. It is through ...

"I Had an Abortion": A Feminist Analysis of the Abortion Debate
A dramatistic analysis of both pro -choice and pro-life rhetoric is included to position the t -shirt in the abortion debate. "I Had an Abortion." This simple statement identifying a past experience is a powerful declaration of belief and identity. ... Familiar pro-life arguments use graphic descriptions of the act and images of bloody, mangled ...

Pro Life Answers To Pro Choice Arguments , C Cleary (2024) …
"Pro Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments" continue to grapple with central themes: the moral status of the fetus, the rights of the pregnant person, the role of the government in regulating reproductive healthcare, and the availability of resources for pregnant individuals and adoptive families. Recent developments like advancements in genetic

THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT:
Only a minority of pro-life supporters have thrown their support to the Chris-tian Right, and Christian Right supporters do not universally support the pro-life groups. We explore the differences between the supporters of the Christian Right and the pro-life movement using data from a national survey in 1984. We

Pro Life Answers To Pro Choice Arguments ; Minjie Lin .pdf ...
3 Pro Life Answers To Pro Choice Arguments Published at grampiancaredata.gov.uk following: Fetal Personhood: Pro-life advocates argue that the fetus is a human being with a right to life from conception, regardless of viability or sentience. They often cite scientific evidence of fetal development and appeal to philosophical arguments about the

Pro Life Answers To Pro Choice Arguments - Liying Dong [PDF] …
3 Pro Life Answers To Pro Choice Arguments Published at www.grampiancaredata.gov.uk following: Fetal Personhood: Pro-life advocates argue that the fetus is a human being with a right to life from conception, regardless of viability or sentience. They often cite scientific evidence of fetal development and appeal to philosophical arguments ...

ScholarWorks@Bellarmine - Bellarmine University
arguments over and over again. However, it can be difficult to reach out and talk to pregnant ... this question, and allowing pro-choice and pro-life to ask each other these questions indirectly, to have some interesting back-and-forth conversations happen without them needing to be in the

BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES FOR PRO-LIFE ENGAGEMENT - Family …
This is often characterized as the “pro-choice” position.3 In the other camp are those who believe that the unborn are full human persons with the same right to life as anyone else. Supporters of this view are called “pro-life.” BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES FOR PRO-LIFE ENGAGEMENT: PERSONHOOD, SCRIPTURE, AND CHURCH HISTORY by David Closson

The Axiology of Abortion
hope that pro-life arguments fail and, further, that there will eventually emerge a successful pro-choice argument; the world contains far less injustice if the pro-life position is false. That is, we should all hope that abortion is not (nearly) tantamount to murder or worse than giving a fetus [fetal alcohol syndrome].

Key arguments used in the debate on physician-assisted dying
Key arguments used in the debate on physician-assisted dying There are many strongly held views on both sides of the debate on physician-assisted dying, and a huge range of materials and literature has been published on the topic. Here we outline some of the key arguments used by those who support and oppose physician-assisted dying.

Abortion: When Choice and Autonomy Conflict - Berkeley Law
personal choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."' This pro-choice argument, though, is premised on the frequently unexamined notion that more choices are always preferable to fewer. This paper explores this premise and argues that the mere existence of an unexercised