Thinking Critically About Abortion

Why Most Abortions Aren’t Wrong & Why All Abortions Should Be Legal

by Nathan Nobis & Kristina Grob, Open Philosophy Press, 2019

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Thursday, December 23, 2021

"Anti-vaxxers have co-opted the pro-choice slogan “My Body, My Choice." Does that even make sense?"

 "Anti-vaxxers have co-opted the pro-choice slogan “My Body, My Choice." Does that even make sense?"



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Thursday, December 9, 2021

"The argument for making abortion illegal is illogical"

 I’m a philosophy professor. The argument for making abortion illegal is illogical

Philosopher Nathan Nobis unpacks the logical (and illogical) arc of the debate over abortion rights

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PUBLISHED DECEMBER 4, 2021 10:00AM (EST)




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Friday, December 3, 2021

The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37)

This book has a unique appeal to the Good Samaritan story (Luke 10:25-37), which is presented in these two videos:




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Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Now at Pressbooks

Thinking Critically About Abortion is now at Pressbooks:

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    Hello Dr. Nobis,    I was alerted to the existence of your book "Thinking Critically About Abortion" via the Crusade Against Ig...
  • Pensando críticamente sobre el aborto: "Thinking Critically About Abortion" in Spanish
    Descargar en PDF aquí Versión Kindle ,  Libro de tapa blanda Amazon.com , Libro de tapa blanda Amazon México , Libro de tapa blanda Amazon...
  • No, consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy
    There is this often made claim that " consent to sex is consent to pregnancy ." This is intended to be an argument, in this case, ...
  • "When does life begin?" and "Are fetuses human?": Two bad 'scientific' questions to ask about abortion
    A U Chicago PhD student, Steven Andrew Jacobs, did a dissertation on the topic of abortion that involved asking biology professors about ...
  • "Force birther"-ism and Virtue Signaling
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  • Text to Speech Version of the Welcome page
    This book introduces readers to the many arguments and controversies concerning abortion. While it argues for ethical and le...
  • The Ambiguities of "Life" and "Human": Responding to Steve Jacobs at "Secular Pro-Life"
    Steve Jacobs responded at " Secular Pro-Life " to this post of mine  that was critical of his dissertation project, and I think h...
  • Is the "bodily autonomy" argument for abortion *that* simple?
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  • Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020) on abortion
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