Should Abortion Rights Be Restricted?
Should Abortion Rights Be Restricted? | Roe v. Wade Must Be Overturned
Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. He has written several books, including Three Approaches to Abortion and The Unaborted Socrates.
Summary: The 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, Roe v. Wade, must be overturned. Socratic logic suggests that if people know what an apple is, then they know what human beings are. If people know what human beings are, then they know that all human beings are entitled to human rights, simply because they are human. By this logic, abortion is wrong because pre-born humans are...
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- Abortion Should Be Restricted
- Abortion Should Not Be Restricted
- Abortion Rights Devalue the Fetus
- Partial-Birth Abortion Is Legal Infanticide
- Laws That Prohibit Late-Term Abortion Put Mothers at Risk
- Roe v. Wade Must Be Overturned
- Roe v. Wade Must Be Upheld
- Parental-Involvement Laws Protect Teens
- Parental-Involvement Laws Violate Women’s Rights
- Abortion Rights Threaten America
- Threats to Abortion Rights Should Be Challenged
- The Arguments of Abortion Rights Opponents Are Seriously Flawed
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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