PBS302H: The Vanishing Pro-Life Apologist

The Vanishing Pro-Life Apologist: Putting the Life Back Into the Debate (1999)

Swope and Matthews-Green are confusing what the public says with what it truly believes. People hold contradictory and incoherent views on abortion precisely because they don’t really believe that the unborn are fully human, despite their rhetoric to the contrary. As philosopher Francis Beckwith points out, why do women only kill their fetuses when confronted with practical difficulties, rather than their already born children, if they truly believe their fetuses are fully human?

http://www.str.org/articles/the-vanishing-pro-life-apologist

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/03/october-letters-49 (also with a response from Paul Swope)