Human Dignity and the Preborn Child – Part 2

 

Why does our culture acknowledge the dignity of born humans, but not the dignity of preborn humans? In part two of a series on human dignity, Brian Fisher examines how the use of fear, semantics, symbolism, blame, and being unseen impacts our culture’s view on the dignity of preborn humans.

Helpful resources:

• • • The Hill (Governor Cuomo statement):https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/489215-cuomo-its-not-the-economy-or-public-health-its-both
    • Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics (Daniel Sulmasy article): https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/human_dignity/chapter18.html 
    • Association for Psychological Science (‘I Feel Your Pain’: The Neuroscience of Empathy): https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/i-feel-your-pain-the-neuroscience-of-empathy 
    • NARAL Pro-Choice America (“Forced Ultrasound Laws” webpage): https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/issue/forced-ultrasound-laws/ 
    • History.com (Japanese internment camps): https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
    • KOSA News/CBS-7 (FBI statement; attack on Chinese-Americans): https://www.cbs7.com/content/news/FBI-calling-stabbing-at-Midland-Sams-a-hate-crime-569233691.html 
    • Human Coalition blog (feedback from our clinics during COVID-19): https://www.humancoalition.org/2020/04/21/covid-19-update-within-this-pandemic-i-still-see-hope/
    • Planned Parenthood “Considering Abortion” webpage: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion/considering-abortion
    • Essence Magazine (Marsha Jones and Alexis McGill Jonson column): https://www.essence.com/feature/black-women-texas-abortion-ban/
    • The Holocaust Memorial Center (identifying badges during Holocaust): https://www.holocaustcenter.org/visit/library-archive/holocaust-badges/
    • History.com (Anti-Semitism): https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/anti-semitism#section_3
    • The Human Element Show “Seeking Through the Semantics”: http://thehumanelementshow.com/portfolio-items/seeing-through-the-semantics/?portfolioCats=36
    • Planned Parenthood “What facts about abortion do I need to know”: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion/considering-abortion/what-facts-about-abortion-do-i-need-know

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