Augustine writes, And therefore the following question may be very carefully inquired into and discussed by learned men, though I do not know whether it is in man’s power to resolve it: At what time the infant begins to live in the womb: whether life exists in a latent form before it manifests itself in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Feticide'
Marquis, Pruss and the Twinning Argument
March 23rd, 2009 23 Comments
Tags: Abortion · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Science and Religion
South Park on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
March 22nd, 2009 3 Comments
The flawed reasoning, commonly found in most media commentary on human embryonic stem-cell research, was not lost on the makers of South Park. I love how brutal South Park are in exposing PC rubbish; see the YouTube clips below. [There are two, fast loading, clips below; they are linked so that both will autoplay] Hat […]
Tags: Abortion · Bad Reasoning · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Humour · Science and Religion
Alexander Pruss on Marquis’s Transitivity of Identity Argument
March 20th, 2009 5 Comments
Matt gave an overview of his scepticism here that moral status is attained at conception, citing Don Marquis’ transitivity of identity argument placing moral status beginning at segmentation (14-21 days post-conception). Matt is agnostic as to whether moral status is acquired at conception but argues that unless there are good reasons for thinking the pre-segmentation […]
Tags: Abortion · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Science and Religion
Some Thoughts on Human Embryonic Stem-cell Research
March 12th, 2009 51 Comments
Given Barack Obama’s reversal of the ban on federal funding for research on new lines of human embryonic stem-cells, I thought I might add my own thoughts on the issues around stem-cell research. My thoughts are somewhat tentative; largely because, unlike many in the media, I don’t see the issues as clear cut or as […]
Tags: Abortion · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Science and Religion
The Catholic Church, Excommunication and Abortion for Child Rape
March 10th, 2009 53 Comments
The Catholic Church has excommunicated the mother, who arranged an abortion for her 9 year old daughter, who was pregnant with twins as a result of rape by her stepfather. There is a heap of controversy over this in the blogosphere, the most insane of which is the Hand Mirror claiming this is evidence the […]
Abortion and Child Abuse
November 27th, 2008 1 Comment
Bloggers WhaleOil and David Farrar are in disagreement over some comments made by Garth George in the New Zealand Herald regarding abortion and child abuse. Garth George says: I have said it before and I say it again: The number one cause of abuse against women and children is abortion. David Farrar says: I disagree. […]
Tags: Abortion · Child Abuse · David Farrar · Ethics · Feticide · Garth George · New Zealand Herald · Susan Sherwin · Whale Oil
Why am I a Bigot?
November 26th, 2008 16 Comments
I am a Theologian with a strong background in Philosophy; apart from Philosophical Theology, my particular area of interest is Ethics. Given this, I often post my thoughts and reflections on moral issues of various persuasions on this blog. I have discussed the morality of warfare, whether it is sometimes permissible to lie, the morality […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Ethics · Feticide · Homosexual Conduct · Religion in Public Life
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
