Bioethics

“Though new insight on technology may have helped Harari sell interesting books, dreaming of a world stripped of all values is as old as modernism itself. Had someone given him a copy of Lewis’ The Abolition of Man, he may have seen his exact premise tackled by an Oxford don nearly 80 years ago.” - Breakpoint

“Brian Bolton, in an article for Freedom from Religion Foundation, seeks to make a case from the Old Testament that the scriptures allow abortion. He does violence to the biblical text in order to make his case and it is important that we debunk such misuse of scripture.” - P&D

A few overviews, with maps…

“Wisconsin adopted a ban on abortion except to save the mother’s life in 1849, a year after the territory became a state. The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide nullified the ban.” - C.Index

”’[Post:] There was only one way she could make sense of it, she said: Losing them now — as fully formed human beings — would be different from losing them back then.’ How so? Could the Post have interviewed activists and scientists on both sides of that question?….

“The latest Pew Research Center survey, conducted March 7 to 13, finds deep disagreement between – and within – the parties over abortion. In fact, the partisan divide on abortion is far wider than it was two decades ago.” - Pew

“Laboratory-grown cell lines descended from fetuses that were aborted decades ago were used in some early-stage testing of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and to grow viruses used to manufacture the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

“When people ask me to list some must-read books — if the goal is understanding religion and the news — the first one I mention is “Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America” by sociologist James Davison Hunter.” - GetReligion

“…constant reference to Judaism as the counter to ‘fundamentalist Christianity’ (as AOC put it in the video) led me to wonder whether it is really the case that Judaism supports a woman’s right to abort her child. Thankfully, the eminent historian, Dr. Glenn Sunshine, is part of the Colson Center editorial team.” - Breakpoint

“In our most recent survey, 61% of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal all or most of the time, while 37% say it should be illegal all or most of the time” - Pew