via PZ Myers comes a vital video by Chloe Heintz: UPDATE: Now there’s a follow up interview with Chloe from CBSNews.com Your Thoughts?
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Category Archives: Bio-Medical Ethics
A Rape Victim’s Heartbreaking Testimony About Planned Parenthood’s Support
February 23, 2011 – 2:04 amTOP Q: “Do Children Have Higher Moral Status Than Adults?”
February 9, 2011 – 10:00 amIn his book Moral Status and Human Life: The Case for Children’s Superiority, law professor James Dwyer argues that children are not merely equal to adults in moral status but actually have a higher moral status than adults. Below is a brief video in which he sketches out the broad contours of his thought on moral [...]
Republican Legislator In Wyoming Recounts Circumstances Of Her Abortion
February 9, 2011 – 12:01 amRachel Maddow covers the remarkable story about Wyoming State Representatives Lisa Shepperson and Sue Wallis making a small government conservatism argument against a paternalistic proposed abortion law: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Wallis is the mother of 7 and the grandmother of 1. More about her can be [...]
A Video Of Me Rambling About Nietzsche
January 17, 2011 – 12:38 amThis is from 2007 and I just found that it pops right up when one Googles me. It’s hard for me to watch because it involves watching me. But I figured it might be of interest to others. Forgive the extemporaneousness of it all and enjoy some of the more hilarious hand gestures. (My favorite [...]
On Good And Evil For Non-Existent People
October 12, 2010 – 4:14 pmKyle, from the video blog Serptopia writes the following to me in reply to my posts from the summer, “On The Intrinsic Connection Between Being and Goodness”: Oh my, you seem quite the Aristotelean. From a certain angle, yes, I am very Aristotelean. But in the broader picture, I see myself as situating all of [...]
Judge This: Surrogate Refuses To Abort Baby At Parents’ Request
October 10, 2010 – 1:15 pmA moral and legal dilemma: When a B.C. couple discovered that the fetus their surrogate mother was carrying was likely to be born with Down syndrome, they wanted an abortion. The surrogate, however, was determined to take the pregnancy to term, sparking a disagreement that has raised thorny questions about the increasingly common arrangements. Get [...]
Contortions Of Catholic Philosophy: Eve Tushnet Argues Gay Sex Is Not OK But Sex Changes Are
June 28, 2010 – 2:20 pmTushnet’s moral choice for herself and for other gays is celibacy or gender reassignment. Of course for some people, specifically some of the transgendered, a sex change is entirely appropriate and preferable to gay sex because from a gender(rather than a sex) perspective, those who are pre-op transgendered and are attracted to members of their [...]
Louisiana To Require Ultrasounds Before Abortions
June 18, 2010 – 5:40 pmIt was a unanimous 79-0 vote: Women seeking abortions in Louisiana will be required to get an ultrasound first, even if they are a victim of rape or incest, under a bill that received final legislative passage Wednesday. The bill by Democratic state Sen. Sharon Broome of Baton Rouge was sent to the governor’s desk [...]
More On Sister Margaret McBride, The Nun Who Approved A Life-Saving Abortion
June 1, 2010 – 2:42 pmThis is mostly previously reported information, but it does include an appearance by Canon lawyer Kevin O’Rourke, a priest who both sides with Sister McBride and admits that the Church’s policy of automatically excommunicating anyone who permits an abortion but not automatically excommunicating pedophile priests “doesn’t look good”: My views on the ethical issues raised [...]
Should Religions Be Exempt From Laws Otherwise Applicable To Others?
May 25, 2010 – 11:10 pmProfMTH explores the issue with a wealth of information, siding against such exemptions: The second video is chock full of legal information. The most interesting bit in here is where he discusses Antonin Scalia’s strong case against religious exemptions and Sonia Sotomayor’s general support for them. 1. Regarding Christian Legal Society v. Martinez– –the decision [...]
Moral Actions, Moral Sentiments, Moral Motives, and Moral Justifications: More On The Nun Excommunicated For Approving A Life-Saving Abortion
May 18, 2010 – 8:27 pmIn reply to my post on the story of Sister Margaret McBride whom the Catholic Church “automatically excommunicated” for helping to give the go-ahead to an abortion claimed necessary for saving the life of an 11 week pregnant mother, I have already received two interesting replies. The first challenged the medical argument for the necessity of [...]
Legalism Over Life: Nun Supports Life-Saving Abortion And Gets Excommunicated
May 18, 2010 – 7:15 amFeministing: Sister Margaret McBride has been demoted from her position at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ after participating in the approval of an abortion for a critically ill patient in 2009. McBride was part of the hospital ethics committee that approved an abortion for a patient with pulmonary hypertension, which can be [...]
Judge This: Who Is Responsible For This Death?
October 7, 2009 – 10:53 amA new variation of James Rachels’s classic thought experiment against the distinction between killing and letting die from Chaos Pet: Well, who is really responsible? Bob? George? Both? Neither? Your Thoughts?
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong On Morality Without God
August 30, 2009 – 1:39 pmFrom Philosophy Bites, comes Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on Morality Without God. Sinnott-Armstrong is the editor of the spectacular series of volumes on moral psychology featuring essays featuring both philosophers and psychologists in interaction with each other. Now he has a new book out, Morality Without God. (via Atheist Media Blog) Your Thoughts?
Judge This: Outsourcing Pregnancy To India
August 29, 2009 – 3:23 pmFull video of Sandel’s talk: Your Thoughts?
Logic, Numbers, and Mary's Conception
August 15, 2009 – 7:05 pmNumbers 5:14, 18, 44: If feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure—then he is to take his wife to the priest…. After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he [...]
Is It Wrong To Advertize Abortion Services On TV?
July 30, 2009 – 8:29 pmSadly this video has been taken down from YouTube.
Is The Christians' God Pro-Life?
July 30, 2009 – 9:12 amDaniel Florian sums up the case that indeed he is not: Dear Pro-Lifer, Your God is not pro-life. You might find that statement surprising, but I know this from your own holy book. Despite what you may have been told, the Bible is not a pro-life document. It is, in many parts, pro-death. In one [...]
Peter Singer Argues We Must Ration Health Care
July 19, 2009 – 7:21 pmHis article is long, here are just a few key pieces: In Britain, everyone has health insurance. In the U.S., some 45 million do not, and nor are they entitled to any health care at all, unless they can get themselves to an emergency room. Hospitals are prohibited from turning away anyone who will be [...]
Making It Illegal To Create Centaurs, Mermaids, and Spider-Man
July 13, 2009 – 8:30 pmDammit. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) — an ardent anti-abortion activist — is worried that the Obama administration’s loosening of restrictions on stem cell research will result in the creation of a new race of bio-engineered “human-animal” hybrid freaks. Or beautiful mermaids. The bill — modeled on an inexplicably overlooked effort by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal [...]
The Pope Not Interested In "Perfect Ideological Conformity?"
July 13, 2009 – 2:39 pmRuss Douthat has a strange column in The New York Times today arguing that because the pope’s views cross the standard political lines of America’s left and right wings (denouncing both environmental destruction and embryonic) that he shows “that truth may not be served by perfect ideological conformity.” The church is not a think tank, [...]
Obama's New Science Czar's Controversial Prescriptions
July 12, 2009 – 9:40 amZombietime has the excerpts from new “science czar” John Holdren’s 1977 book, in which he advocates the following: • Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not; • The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food; • [...]
Pope Benedict XVI In League With "Liberal Communists"?
July 7, 2009 – 10:57 pmAnthony Paul Smith has an interesting response (one that seems to be deeply influenced by Zizek’s remarks on those whom he dubs “liberal communists” here) to the Pope’s new encyclical. An excerpt from Smith: Apparently any use of technology in relation to life, from birth control to abortion to in vitro to cloning, is a [...]
Graphs Suggest Secular Countries Less Corrupt, More Peaceful
June 29, 2009 – 9:12 pmAn interesting graph: Here’s Tom Rees’s interpetation of the data: the graph (as shown on the right) shows a dramatic and strong relationship between religiosity and corruption. This does not mean that religion causes corruption. A more likely explanation is that a common, third factor explains both. And the obvious explanation is wealth. Rich countries [...]
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