READS: The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe, by Michael Stokes Paulsen
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Up today on Public Discourse: "The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe." I've said it before and I'll say it again: somebody needs to make this man a Supreme Court justice. This is likely to be the first of many links to his work. Excerpt: Here is the problem, undressed: If human embryonic life is morally worthy of protection, we have permitted sixty million murders under our watch. Faced with this prospect, many of us—maybe even most—flee from the facts. We deny that the living human embryo is “truly” or “fully” human life, adopt a view that whether the embryo or fetus is human “depends,” or can be judged in degrees, on a sliding scale over the course of pregnancy; or we proclaim uncertainty about the facts of human biology; or we proclaim moral agnosticism about the propriety of “imposing our views on others”; or we throw up our hands and give up because moral opposition to an entrenched, pervasive social practice is not worth the effort, discomfort, and social costs. The one position not on the table—the one possibility too hard to look at—is that abortion is a grave moral wrong on a par with the greatest human moral atrocities of all time and that we passively, almost willingly, accept it as such.
READS: The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe, by Michael Stokes Paulsen
READS: The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe, by…
READS: The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe, by Michael Stokes Paulsen
Up today on Public Discourse: "The Unbearable Wrongness of Roe." I've said it before and I'll say it again: somebody needs to make this man a Supreme Court justice. This is likely to be the first of many links to his work. Excerpt: Here is the problem, undressed: If human embryonic life is morally worthy of protection, we have permitted sixty million murders under our watch. Faced with this prospect, many of us—maybe even most—flee from the facts. We deny that the living human embryo is “truly” or “fully” human life, adopt a view that whether the embryo or fetus is human “depends,” or can be judged in degrees, on a sliding scale over the course of pregnancy; or we proclaim uncertainty about the facts of human biology; or we proclaim moral agnosticism about the propriety of “imposing our views on others”; or we throw up our hands and give up because moral opposition to an entrenched, pervasive social practice is not worth the effort, discomfort, and social costs. The one position not on the table—the one possibility too hard to look at—is that abortion is a grave moral wrong on a par with the greatest human moral atrocities of all time and that we passively, almost willingly, accept it as such.