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Infanticide and the Rational Soul, Part II: Aquinas and the Immateriality of the Soul
In my last brief, I introduced Michael Tooley's argument against fetal and infant personhood, based in part upon the argument that the concept of an immaterial soul is unsound. In this essay, I set forth Aquinas’s account of why the rational soul must be immaterial.
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Infanticide and the Rational Soul, Part I: Michael Tooley and the Denial of Personhood
In February 2012, the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) published a scholarly article defending infanticide (“after-birth abortion”). It stirred considerable controversy. The authors, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva (GM), argued as follows: a fetus is not an actual person but a potential person...
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A Critique of the Critiques: Regnerus' Parenting Study and What is Really Best for Children
Last year, Sociologist Dr. Mark Regnerus published a large-sample study which demonstrated that children flourish optimally when raised in the traditional family structure of a biological mother and father. This finding itself was not new, as the Child Trend report in 2002 described the very same thing.
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Does Emergency Contraception Cause Early Abortions
Parts I and II of Christian Brugger's Essay on Emergency Contraception published by the National Catholic Register
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Transgenderism and Student Health: Part II
As discussed in my previous essay, the new Massachusetts’ statutes will create increased distress and challenges for the gender-confused child and his or her family; the consequences, unfortunately, will not stop there. In fact, the Board’s presumption that the claiming of different gendered status by a child’s peer has a positive (or even neutral) effect on the others in the school—already being challenged by some parents and at least one council member—is naïve, at best.
