Category Archives: Terms and Definitions

15 Anti-Abortion Arguments

Posted on May 7, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

Picture by: Unknown (accessed 6 May 2013 at: http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/3263#comment-175) Arguments Against Abortion (c) John D. Ferrer, 6 May 2013 The Overall Argument Premise 1) Legality, where possible, should line up with morality. Premise 2) Abortion-on-demand is immoral yet can banned. Conclusion) Therefore … Continue reading →

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Abortion News

Posted on May 7, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

Boycotts Looming For Eden Foods over “Hobby-Lobby-esque” Contraception Coverage (18 July 2014) Congress Blocks Bill to Restore Contraceptive Coverage in Wake of Hobby Lobby Case (16 July 2014) Abortion Clinic Protections Proposed in Massachusetts (14 July 2014) High School Sophomore … Continue reading →

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Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion”

Posted on May 6, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

This famous monumental defense of abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson predates the Roe v. Wade decision by almost two years. In this article submitted to Philosophy & Public Affairs (Vol. 1, no. 1 [Fall 1971]), Thomson argues by various analogies that … Continue reading →

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Kinds of Abortion (without pictures)

Posted on May 6, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

Abortion can be categorized in a number of ways, only some of which are useful to the normal sense of “abortion” at issue in current U.S. politics, culture and medicine. We are, of course, talking about human abortion and not … Continue reading →

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What Is an Abortion? (John D. Ferrer, 6 May 2013)

Posted on May 5, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

Abortion is a fact of life, happening naturally across the whole animal kingdom–humans included. Among people these natural abortions are called miscarriages. But that is not the sense debated much in America. The issue at hand is non-natural abortion, also … Continue reading →

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