Episode 17: Let's Talk About Abortion
Update: 2021-09-15
Description
A thoughtful, well-informed discussion that only occasionally strays into insane thought experiments.
- The legal framework for abortion;
- Moral intuitions around viability;
- Ileana's abortion story;
- Hypothetical no. 1: engineering a perfect artificial womb and/or an animal with developing sentience;
- Who owns the (real) frozen embryos?
- Hypothetical no. 2: Brad gets Mary pregnant...
...and much, much more.
Links
- The Moral Case for Abortion, by Ann Furedi
- The Turnaway Study
- The macroeconomics of abortion: A scoping review and analysis of the costs and outcomes
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