Thursday, June 13, 2019

Francis Beckwith on Abortion: Four Part Series

* This series of articles from Francis Beckwith provides good pro-life arguments.

Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part One): The Appeal to Pity
* Argument from the Dangers of Illegal Abortion
* Argument from Economic Inequity
* Argument from Population, Poverty, & Financial Burden 
* Argument from the Deformed & Mongoloid Child

Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part Two): Arguments from Pity, Tolerance, and Ad Hominem 
* Argument from Rape and Incest
* Argument from the Unwanted Child
* Argument from Pluralism
* Argument from Imposing Morality
* Argument Against a Public Policy Forbidding Abortion
* Argument from the Impossibility of Legally Stopping Abortion
* Why Don't Pro-lifers Adopt the Babies They Don't Want Aborted
* Aren't Pro-lifers Inconsistent if They Support Capital Punishment
* Men Don't Get Pregnant

Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part Three): Is the Unborn Human Less Than Human? 

*Decisive Moment Theories
     -Agnostic Approach: No One Knows When Life Begins
     -Implantation
     -The Appearance of "Humanness"
     -Human Sentitment
     -Quickening 
     -Birth 

Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part Four): When Does a Human Become a Person? 
* Decisive Moments Theories (continued)
     -Beginning of Brain Development
     -Viability
     -The Attainment of Sentinence
     -Criteria of Personhood
* The Gradualist Thesis