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Abortion and Infanticide

Posted by on September 29, 2010

If it is per­mis­si­ble for a woman to choose and undergo abor­tion, why is it not like­wise per­mis­si­ble for a man to choose and have infan­ti­cide per­formed?  A baby, much like a ‘fetus’, can­not sur­vive on its own, hence it has to impose. What dis­tin­guishes the two?… (Read more)

Category Ethics and Morality, Society

Anti-abortion… Anti-women?

Posted by on February 6, 2010

So, in between a life of much too busy, I hap­pened upon a news cast which, for lack of a bet­ter word, decried a cer­tain Super­bowl ad by Focus on the Fam­ily (in coop­er­a­tion with CBS, appar­ently. At least, accord­ing to this news cast). The news­cast seemed to give the impres­sion that any­one who pro­motes an anti-abortion posi­tion (i.e. “pro-life”) does not: (1) trust and value women (specif­i­cally, moth­ers) and girls, (2) respect fam­ily, (3) respect the rights and auton­omy of women. A planned par­ent­hood ad was shown in which it is said that the super bowl was the “per­fect time to honor both sports and fam­ily” (this ad being a response). The news­cast goes on to dis­cuss whether the ‘other side’ should be allowed their own adver­tise­ment advo­cat­ing abor­tion. How­ever, this is irrel­e­vant given that first few min­utes of the news­cast are spent poi­son­ing the well (against the … (Read more)

Category Ethics and Morality, Society

Fetus: human being, if not, what?

Posted by on June 21, 2009

We’ve all heard it said before:

I don’t feel that a fetus is alive until it can sur­vive out­side of the mother. I’m not going to change my mind about that…

I find this an unten­able posi­tion, though at least he used the word fetus rather than baby, excus­ing the emo­tional lan­guage, more on this in just a little bit.

This entry isn’t intended as any sort of exhaus­tive dis­cus­sion of abor­tion, it isn’t even nec­es­sar­ily intended as a reli­gious exam­i­na­tion of abor­tion, though keep­ing in mind a Chris­t­ian world view would be of great ben­e­fit (as that is where I am ‘com­ing’ from, even if I try to remove as many of my pre­sup­po­si­tions as pos­si­ble). These are my ini­tial thoughts which will more likely than not be expanded elsewhere.

In dis­cussing abor­tion it seems clear to me that we need to define a few terms, terms that would be … (Read more)

Category Ethics and Morality, Philosophy