COVID crisis The Religious Right & Project Blitz I have written before about how the religious right is raising their game to capitalise on the chaos and distraction caused by Trump in order to pass laws concerning abortion. This move to force their pious views and hardline Christian values upon American society is part of an organised and
Alabama The Stupidity of Abortion Lawmakers Let's whet your appetite: how did abortions get banned faster than assault rifles— Tay☁️ (@taywildin) 15 May 2019 Birth control? BAN IT!!Abortion? BAN IT!! What about guns? Look, banning things never works. People will find ways to get them#AlabamaAbortionBan — Debbie Redd (@DREDD_48) 15 May 2019
COVID crisis America, Sort It Out! Abortion Rates Go Down When Countries Make It Legal Wow, things have really taken a turn for the worse. You blink, and states in the US suddenly go nuts. Here is what happens when you concentrate with a one track mind on President Trump and forgets to keep an eye on everything else. Before I get into what has
COVID crisis ‘Fetal Heartbeat’ Abortion Law Signed by Georgia Governor Oh dear. I guess this means some incoming lawsuits. I hope so, at any rate. This is from The New York Times: Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation on Tuesday, effectively banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, when doctors
COVID crisis Pro-Life Argument from a Zygote's Internal Self-Organisation Today, I want to look at a pro-life argument proposed recently by Vincent Torley. It looks at human development differing and being special on account of internal self-organisation. Let Vincent explain: Professor Condic goes on to explain (on page 11) that the embryonic development differs in one crucial respect from
COVID crisis Dealing with some Pro-Life Arguments: Human Individuals Vincent Torley recently hit a thread with a sizeable comment regarding his pro-life stance. I will post the whole comment here, and will try to deal with most of it, though it might take some unpicking, so if I miss some pertinent aspects, be sure to let me know. Let
Catholic sex abuse scandal Catholic Commenters, the Pope, Nuns and Their Abortions Our regular fervent Catholic commenter recently stated these gems: I don’t believe the words of the Bible. Nobody does. Bible believers believe what they think the Bible’s words mean. In other words, they don’t believe the Bible, they believe their interpretation of the Bible. I believe the
COVID crisis High Court upholds ban on abortion clinic protests Ealing Council has been engaged in trying to enforce a buffer zone around abortions clinics in its jurisdiction. This has been met with great support from the pro-choice advocates in the UK, but with less joy from the pro-lifers. Obviously. Good news is that the decision to do so has
COVID crisis Iowa approves 'most restrictive abortion bill in US' Oh dear. The BBC: The US state of Iowa has approved an abortion law banning most abortions once a foetal heartbeat is detected. Republican lawmakers passed the bill in back-to-back votes, sending it to the governor's desk to sign into law. If it comes into effect the bill
COVID crisis Debating Abortion: Potential Humans - Produce as Many Real Ones as Possible! Quite often, in the abortion debate, one hears the "potential Mother Theresa" or potential human (being) argument. Potentiality is quite problematic. After all, any given human is also a potential mass murderer or potential Hitler. Potentiality, as a concept, is rather dubious at best. The idea is that
COVID crisis Government Won't Accept UN Recommendations on Abortion and LGBT Discrimination in Northern Ireland This has come from Humanists UK: The Government has published its response to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. The UN’s report, published last month, highlighted the lack of sexual and reproductive rights and discrimination
Church Jacob Rees-Mogg, Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage The phenomenon that is Jacob Rees-Mogg in UK politics is an interesting one. He is the quintessential English "gentleman" politician - an upper classed toff of a Conservative MP who appears to fulfil all the stereotypes you can muster. And I'm not just goint OTT here
COVID crisis Indian court rejects abortion for 10-year-old rape victim Oh completely dear. Thi is what happens when you stick to strict rules without seeing the common sense in reality. A change in law is desperately needed here, methinks. The BBC: India's Supreme Court has refused to allow an abortion for a 10-year-old girl, allegedly raped by her
climate change The UK Government Is Very Open about Its Bribery and Hypocrisy Recently (for my more international readers), the UK electorate was involved in a snap election because the Prime Minister, Theresa May, looked at her massive lead in the polls and saw that she was about to enter into vital negotiations with the EU over Brexit. In order to have the
COVID crisis Does Missouri Bill Let Employers Fire People Who Use Birth Control? This was reported a week ago, and may not be news to some of you. There seems to be a lot of this sort of governance and bill-passing going on at the moment. As Feministing reported last week: Yesterday, the Missouri House voted to pass SB 5, a bill imposing
COVID crisis Jail for Driving Someone to an Abortion? Texas lawmakers are trying it on, and it's not looking good because the Senate accepted House amendments the bill and it now heads to Governor Greg Abbott’s desk for his approval. What is the bill? Well, as the Texas Observer states: The Observer spoke to several other
COVID crisis Referendum on Abortion Announced in Ireland This long-overdue news comes from Humanists UK: Ireland’s newly elected Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that a referendum will be held in 2018 on the issue of repealing the eighth amendment of the Irish constitution, which strictly prohibits abortion in nearly all circumstances. Varadkar announced the planned referendum alongside
catholicism Citizens’ Assembly calls for wide access to abortion in Republic of Ireland This has come from the British Humanist Association: The Citizens’ Assembly, a public forum of 99 members set up to advise the Irish Government on public ethical issues, has voted 52 to 29 to recommend reform of Ireland’s constitution to allow abortion without restriction for up to 12 weeks,
COVID crisis Texas Anti-masturbation Bill Coming closer to Being Law Sometimes, to illustrate the ridiculous, you must analogise, or logically mimic. These techniques are the best friends of philosophers since they show that "if you accept that, then you must accept this, and this is ridiculous". A $100 fine for masturbating is being argued for by Texas State
BHA Anti-abortion group receives grant from UK ‘tampon-tax’ fund Why is this sort of crap happening more and more in the UK? This is from the British Humanist Association: The Government has received criticism for providing funding of £250,000 to Life, an anti-abortion organisation, who has previously made unevidenced claims about abortion, vaccinations and contraception. This grant was
Australia UK MPs and Australia's Northern Territory on Abortion Law, Clinics and Buffer Zones Things have been moving in the right direction for pro-choice advocates in certain parts of the world. The British Humanist Association reports on UK MPs: Members of the House of Commons yesterday voted by 172 to 142 in favour of a Ten Minute Rule bill brought by Diana Johnson MP,
COVID crisis Showing You That Embryos Do Not Have Same Value As Human Beings I have often enjoyed the power of these thought experiments produced by Andy Schueler here at ATP. I thought I would make a post of it. If you ever have an abortion / personhood debate elsewhere, please signpost them to this piece. Here are some little scenarios that should lead you
COVID crisis God's Omissive Will and the Problem of Evil The Problem of Evil is a real thorn in the side for Christians and most theists alike. How can there be so much suffering in light of an OmniGod? Christians offer defences and theodicies as propositions for solving this problem. For example, the Free Will Theodicy proposes that suffering caused
COVID crisis One More Time, God Loves Abortion! God Loves Abortion! Or it is necessary for foetuses to die for a greater good. Well that's certainly one of the conclusions that must come from the statistics for natural, spontaneous abortions, or miscarriages; abortions that God has the power to stop, and seemingly designed in to the system in th
COVID crisis Carlin on Abortion This is a fabulous quote (H/T Andy Schueler): Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place, huh? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They'
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