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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