Author Responds to “Allowing the Unborn to Live While Respecting Women’s Free Will”
Dr. Block asked that I post his response to my comments on his law review article in “Allowing the Unborn to Live While Respecting Women’s Free Will.” Here is Dr. Block’s response in its entirety: I appreciate that you characterize us as “two prolife professors,” because that is EXACTLY how I, at least, see our […]
Allowing the Unborn to Live While Respecting Women’s Free Will
Compromising the Uncompromisable: A Private Property Rights Approach to Resolving the Abortion Controversy is a new posting on SSRN. This article, published in 2005 by two prolife professors, argues that medical technology allowing gestation outside the mother’s womb may eventually erode the right to abortion, if that right is understood to mean the right to […]
Review of Kaczor’s “The Ethics of Abortion”
Fine new book by UFL member Chris Kaczor — here is my review of it: The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice. By Christopher Kaczor. New York NY: Routledge, 2011. Pp. 246. $39.95 paper. There can be no philosophically sophisticated discussion of the morality of abortion that fails to […]
Wisconsin Budget Redirects Funds away from Planned Parenthood
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recently signed a budget bill which redirects $1 million in state and federal family planning funds away from Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin toward other providers of family planning services. According to LifeNews.com , “in 2010 Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin received more than $18 million in federal and state family planning funds that […]
Communication and Moral Complexity
SSRN lists a new article, Moral Conflict and Complexity: The Dynamics of Constructive Versus Destructive Discussions Over Polarizing Issues. The authors’ abstract, which you can access here, describes the contents as: Moral conflicts, whether over abortion, the death penalty, or the ‘right’ approach to addressing terrorism, pose serious challenges to societies worldwide. They can quickly […]
Tristam Engelhardt on Moral Pluralism in Bioethics
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy has a new article,
Abortion Funding and the Right to Resist Bodily Invasion
In an article that can be found on SSRN, Robin West, a prominent feminist law professor, evaluates Eileen McDonagh theory that the state funding of abortion facilitiates a woman’s right right to resist the non-consensual invasion, appropriation, and use of her physical body by an unwelcome fetus. West praises McDonagh’s theory as making the personhood […]
More praise for Chris Kaczor’s book on the abortion
In a prior post, I mentioned Chris Kaczor’s excellent new book entitled “The Ethics of Abortion.” See http://uffl.org/blog/?p=365 Here is a review of the book by Raymond Hain from The Public Discourse website. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/03/2920 In Hain’s view, “Kaczor’s clear and even-handed writing makes it an excellent resource for anyone who wishes to think carefully about the significant […]
lecture by John Keown
Professor John Keown (Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University) will be giving a lecture in London (Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster) on May 16, 2011. The lecture, which is entitled “The provision of palliative care: an ethical and legal duty?”, is sponsored by by the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. See http://www.bioethics.org.uk/ Professor Keown will also speak on […]
Live Action, Planned Parenthood, and the Morality of Lying
There has been a lot of discussion about Live Action’s videos that reveal some shocking practices by Planned Parenthood staffers. On the Public Discourse website, Christopher Tollefsen has criticized Live Action’s practices. Others, including Christopher Kaczor, have defended Live Action’s approach. While admitting that this is a very difficult issue, I am inclined to think Tollefsen has […]