Posts Tagged ‘Bodily Rights’
De Facto Guardian: A Response to the Strongest Version of the Bodily Rights Argument for Abortion
I’ve been privileged to participate in a philosophy study group with folks from the JFA community. Stephen Wagner, writing for the group, just completed a first draft of a long-awaited paper detailing a response to what we believe is the toughest pro-choice argument, a bodily rights argument that claims that a woman has a legal right to refuse to allow the unborn to use her body, especially in the case of rape and very early in pregnancy (a version of the Violinist argument). Our response is available for download here. Eager for public interaction with the paper, we decided to make this post the official internet download site in order to focus public discussion of the paper in one place, using the commenting features within this post.
De Facto Guardian and Abortion: A Response to the Strongest Violinist (PDF)
With this paper, we hope to push the dialogue about bodily rights arguments in a direction we haven’t seen very prominent in the literature or on the web. We look forward to hearing what you think!
Does the Mother Benefit from Pregnancy? If So, Does That Negate Bodily Rights Arguments?
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Josh responds to a listener mail question asking whether the potential health benefits a mother receives during pregnancy negate bodily rights arguments.
Related Links:
- Click here for the episode on violinist reasoning Josh referenced.
- Click here for the Scott Klusendorf episode Josh referenced on biblical arguments for the pro-life and pro-choice positions
- Check out other resources on bodily rights arguments here: http://prolifepodcast.net/tag/bodily-rights
Violinist Reasoning. SPECIAL GUEST: Trent Horn
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Pro-life advocate Trent Horn explains how some pro-choice arguments don’t seem so crazy if you view them through the lens of Judith Jarvis Thompson’s violinist analogy instead of an anti-personhood worldview. This is very important, because we want to understand where pro-choice people are coming from, and in my experience, more and more of them are coming from a bodily rights case and not only an anti-fetal-personhood view.
Trent Horn is the Coordinator of Respect Life Leadership Support at the Diocese of Phoenix. To learn more about Trent, visit DiocesePhoenix.org. Watch other Life Report episodes with him at prolifepodcast.net/tag/trent-horn.
More Life Report episodes responding to bodily rights arguments can be found here: prolifepodcast.net/tag/bodily-rights
Open Line: Bodily Rights Arguments; Consistent Pro-Choicers & More
BONUS: Interview – Jen Roth, Pro-Life Atheist
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Josh Brahm interviews Jen Roth, a pro-life philosopher who’s also an atheist and co-founder of All Our Lives. Jen explains how she communicates and defends her pro-life position. Jen also responded to questions from both pro-life and pro-choice live listeners, and closes the show by asking Josh how he grounds his view that humans are valuable.
Web Exclusive: More on the McDonagh Argument
Josh responds to listener comments and clears up some pro-life misconceptions about Eileen McDonagh’s argument.