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Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part Three)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Are You a Member of the Moral Community?

There's human, there's human being, and then there's persons. That you would deny personhood where personhood is not saying they're not human. In fact, a clump of cancer cells can be officially genetically human, right? It has growth. It's an organism. It has human DNA. So I think Marcus makes this distinction. Do you want to stop at human? Or do you want to say "not a cancer cell, but a human being"

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