College Fix: A pro-choice professor is refusing to say whether or not unborn human beings are actually human, something a prominent professor and bioethicist called an “objective biological fact.”
Rebecca Todd Peters, professor of religious studies at Elon University, recently wrote an opinion piece justifying her pro-choice stance on abortion from a Christian perspective. “If we truly value women and healthy families, we must accept that ‘I do not want to have a baby’ is an imminently appropriate reason to end a pregnancy. And we must trust that pregnant women are the only ones who are capable of making these decisions,” Peters writes in the column.
Citing her own mother’s teaching, Peters states: “You shouldn’t have a baby because you are pregnant. You should have a baby because you want to be a mother, because you want to have a family.”
The College Fix reached out to Peters with numerous questions regarding her pro-abortion philosophy, including whether or not she believed unborn human beings are actually human, and whether or not it is acceptable to euthanize gravely ill infants.
“The questions that you ask…are very serious moral questions that require far more substantive reflection and discussion than I could possibly offer” prior to this article’s deadline, Peters responded. She pointed The Fix toward her book “Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice” for “a far more detailed and nuanced discussion of these questions than I could possibly offer in an email.”
The Fix offered to extend the deadline of this article if Peters would be willing to explain whether or not she believed the unborn are actually human. “As I mentioned, everything you have asked about is in the book so I think I will leave it at that,” Peters responded.
Not everyone thinks that the humanity of unborn humans is a “moral question” that requires “nuance.” Dianne N. Irving, a professor, research biochemist and bioethicist, told The Fix via email that the humanity of unborn humans is an “objective scientific fact.”
“First, be assured, that it has been known internationally for over 100 years…that a new sexually reproduced human being begins to exist at fertilization. By the 1940s this objective scientific fact was universally documented,” Irving said.
“The accurate objective facts have also been incorporated in genuine human embryology textbooks for many decades now. Can’t get more objective than that!” Irving added.
“Of course [Peters] did not want to answer this question as she already knew that it would debunk her pro-abortion argument,” Irving said. more here
The logic trap they just can’t get around so just ignore.
“If we truly value women and healthy families, we must accept that ‘I do not want to have a baby’ is an imminently appropriate reason to end a pregnancy.
No, we must accept that that is an appropriate reason to not get pregnant in the first place. It is not an appropriate reason to kill a child we’ve already created.
Liberal Logical trains of thought:
1) Fetus is just a ball of human cells and DNA.
2) Gender is fluid and a choice that evolves.
3) Illegal trespassers are people who are just undocumented citizens who would come legally if they could.
4) The religion of peace is actually peaceful, humane, and an asset to Western Civilization and people in general.
5) Taxation without representation is a social and moral necessity.
6) Moochelle Obama is a man dressed in women’s clothing.
Sorry, point 6 is actually just what I think.
Progressivism and Christianity are two religions that are absolutely incompatible. The only use followers of progressivism have for Christianity is when they bastardize one of the tenants of Christianity and then stretch what they have redefined as infinitely plastic and flexible around some screwball belief of their own religion in order to give it validity.
“You can’t teach a Pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and aggravates the Pig.”
To be a Liberal you must surrender your humanity. May God have mercy on them.
They are not contrite, instead they justify and excuse themselves, so I do not have to forgive them.
Infanticide is murder.
Pbunyan, you are correct–she’s skipping a step. “I don’t want to have a baby” is a reason to not get pregnant, not a reason to kill an already created child.
Sounds like her mother was screwed up as well. “You shouldn’t have a baby because you are pregnant,” isn’t the right formulation. “You shouldn’t have sex if you don’t want to get pregnant,” is a better starting point. Her mother should have advised her, “You shouldn’t punish a child because of your mistake–you don’t abort a baby because you were irresponsible in creating it.”
A woman is never pregnant with a unicorn.
This fact is not above the pay grade of just about anyone, except infants.
Sounds like the work of Satan:
https://twitter.com/rektredpill/status/1031552386148511744
or Hillary. Whatever.
“If we truly value men and healthy families, we must accept that ‘I do not want to have a baby’ is an imminently appropriate reason to end a pregnancy.”
I mean, she hates sexism. Right?
Obscene load of crap.
If you don’t want to have a baby, stop yer boinking
Especially yer one night stand kind of boinking
Shallow, vapid, and loose is no way to go through life, hon.
‘I do not want to have a baby’ is an imminently appropriate reason TO NOT HAVE SEX!!!!
When your vagina runs your life, your logic represents tertiary syphilis.
Murdering a fetus makes you an evil horrible person. period.
The Sexual Revolution has become the Murder is Legal revolution.
God told us not to do that shit.