Pro-Life Thinking

Clinton and Nathan are joined by Dr. Fazale Rana of Reasons to Believe to discuss the topic of transhumanism, which he and Dr. Ken Samples discussed in their recent book Humans 2.0.

Clinton interviews Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason about the upcoming second edition of his book, Tactics. There were some unfortunate technical issues on our end but we still managed to get through the interview all right.

Clinton is joined by Stephen Napier to discuss his recent book, as well as his arguments from moral risk and epistemic diffidence against abortion, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research.

Clinton and Nathan interview Steve Jacobs, who published a paper that showed 96% of biologists agree human life begins at fertilization, and that most pro-choice people believe they should take biologists' word on this question.

Resources mentioned:

"Balancing Abortion Rights and Fetal Rights: A Mixed Methods Mediation of the U.S. Abortion Debate" by Steve Jacobs, https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1883

"Biologists' Consensus on When Life Begins" by Steve Jacobs, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211703

"I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn't Popular", Quilette, by Steve Jacobs: https://quillette.com/2019/10/16/i-asked-thousands-of-biologists-when-life-begins-the-answer-wasnt-popular/

"BLOG: 'When Does Life Begin?' and 'Are Fetuses Human?': Two Bad Questions to Ask About Abortion" by Nathan Nobis, https://www.abortionarguments.com/p/blog.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR3qdxmd9p8Nlfr2N-ZLZTHkRHqnqwiRx1sOIc0wL_8Uc3GmrELVlXDUJXM

Clinton and Nathan are joined by Terrisa Bukovinac of Pro-Life San Francisco to talk about her efforts to make the Democrat party more pro-life and to talk about David Daleiden and the legal issues he's been facing from his undercover sting operation against Planned Parenthood.

The song at the end of the podcast is The Instability of Protoman, by Death Therapy. To purchase Death Therapy's music, you can use this link: https://solidstate.lnk.to/VOICES?fbclid=IwAR06Q9Y4JVLsskjtHWbFghY67e_Wh8CNzaqRtJQaSzCA3XSGldSpuwg1giA

Clinton and Nathan are joined by their Life Training Institute colleague, Jay Watts, to discuss a viral video released by Students for Life of America, as well as some of the arguments for infanticide.

Clinton will be talking with Michael Buratovich, a professor of biochemistry, about stem cell research and his book The Stem Cell Epistles.

Check out Michael's blog, Beyond the Dish: https://beyondthedish.wordpress.com/

Clinton and Nathan interview Dr. Maureen Condic, a neurobiologist who teaches at University of Utah, about human development, including some of the objections abortion-choice advocates occasionally raise against the science of embryology.

Some of the objections discussed in this episode:

-Human life doesn't begin until the brain is sufficiently developed.

-Some embryos have the capacity to twin or recombine, so we can't say an individual human life begins before that point.

-Human life doesn't begin at fertilization, it began thousands of years ago. So life is continuous.

Be sure to check out this book by Dr. Condic, mentioned in the podcast:

Human Embryos, Human Beings: A Scientific and Philosophical Approach (with Samuel B. Condic)

Scott Klusendorf, president of Life Training Institute, recently gave a talk at CSU San Marcos about what makes us human and what makes us valuable as human beings. We present this talk, in its entirety, including audience Q&A. 

Books mentioned in Scott's lecture:

Peter Kreeft -- The Unaborted Socrates

Scott Klusendorf -- The Case for Life

Francis J. Beckwith and Greg Koukl -- Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air

Francis J. Beckwith -- Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice

Christopher Kaczor -- The Ethics of Abortion, 2nd ed.

Patrick Lee -- Abortion and Unborn Human Life

Hadley Arkes -- First Things

Hadley Arkes -- Natural Rights and the Right to Choose

Clinton and Nathan discuss Mary Anne Warren's essay "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" and the criteria she lists for personhood in that article.