The Philosophy of the Abortion Debate | Prof. Angela Knobel
The Thomistic Institute
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What Would You Want to Know About the Fetus?
i've been a teaching abortion in the class rooms ever since two thousand four women my first class. I always ask students to do a thought experiment, right? Pretend you don't have a view,. Ut pretend you don't. What would you want to know? And in 18 years of asking this question, i always get the same answers - they kind of fall into two groups. One has to do with the foetus, one of which has toDo with the woman. The better we understand each other, the greater the chance of civil conversation. So what i'm just going vate and describe the two big philosophical questions that philosophers agree are at the heart of debates about abortion.
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