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#658 – A Thoughtful Dialogue on Abortion (with Randal Rauser)

The Counsel of Trent

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Is There a Moral Value in Human Embryos?

I apologize because some people, when people present an experiment, they'll extrapolate to different conclusions. The conclusion is that they don't have an embryo doesn't have moral value necessarily equivalent to a newborn infant. But even if they had less value than an infant, could it be the case they still have enough value that it's wrong to directly kill them? It definitely could be. I worry that kind of gradualist view will run loggerheads against the other intuition that we have equal basic value or dignity and things like that.

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