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Abortion

Abortion. Abortion. Case Discussion: The Unwanted Pregnancy-Case 5.1 Pastoral Approaches Moral Discussions Discussions with the parents. Background. Roe v. Wade (1973) Doe v. Bolton (1973) Webster v. Reproductive Services (1989) Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). Biblical Teaching.

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Abortion

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  1. Abortion

  2. Abortion • Case Discussion: The Unwanted Pregnancy-Case 5.1 • Pastoral Approaches • Moral Discussions • Discussions with the parents

  3. Background • Roe v. Wade (1973) • Doe v. Bolton (1973) • Webster v. Reproductive Services (1989) • Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)

  4. Biblical Teaching • Image of God in persons • Incarnation • Continuity of Personal Identity • Psalm 139 • Psalm 51 • Discontinuity?: Exodus 21:22-23

  5. Common Pro-Choice Arguments • Ad Hominem Arguments • My Body-My Choice • Unwanted Children • “Back-Alley Butchers” • Discriminatory • Rape and Incest

  6. ABORTION • Personhood of Unborn • Principal Line of Argument • Main Decisive Moments • Birth • Viability • Brain Activity • Implantation • Sentience

  7. ABORTION • Warren and the argument from function • Criteria for Personhood • Problems with functional criteria • Being a person vs. functioning as a person • Counter examples • Idea of the Potential Person

  8. ABORTION • Thomson and the Violinist • Killing vs. withdrawing life support • Applies strictly only when sex is non-consensual • Unborn have a prima facie claim on the mother’s body

  9. ABORTION • Abortion and the Artificial Womb • Roe v. Wade about women’s rights over own body • Right not to be pregnant vs. right to end the life of the child • Could provide powerful visual image of the developing child

  10. ABORTION • Feminism and Abortion Today • Naomi Wolf, “Our Bodies, Our Souls,” The New Republic , October 16, 1995.

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