Is It an Abortion Issue?

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Law is an artifact of culture, and it's an artifact of moral culture. Why are women getting pregnant when they don't want to get pregnant? Well, ok, education, access to birth control, universal health care that pays for the birth control. But conservative christians have largely pushed back against that,. They say no, if we give them birth control, they're going to go and have sex. The solution maybe, i don't know if you would agree with that or not, but, ye, just a, you know, educate people. And also economic and powermet.

In their book Science and the Good, professional philosophers James Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The conversation takes a decidedly interesting turn when Drs. Hunter and Nedelisky reveal that they are both theists and that their Christian worldview informs their thinking on moral issues. The three then dig into the weeds of the difference between religious and secular moral systems, the nature of God and morality, why a purely naturalistic approach to morality does not negate religion or even the existence of God (natural law could be God’s way of creating moral values), natural rights and rights theory, consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, progress in philosophy, why philosophers never seem to reach consensus on important subjects like morality, how to think about issues like abortion, why they believe in God and follow the Christian religion and yet reject Divine Command Theory, and much more.