Science and the abortion debate

Jan 21, 2018 by Jill

by Xavier Symons, Bio Edge:

Has science been a boon to the pro-life movement? Yes, says journalist Emma Green. In an feature article published in The Atlantic this week, Green suggests that, while both pro-choice and pro-life groups have used developments in embryology and neonatology to their advantage, the pro-life movement has been particularly effective in using new scientific evidence to shape the legislative agenda. After cataloguing developments in ultrasound technology and life-saving care for premature babies, Green states:

These advances fundamentally shift the moral intuition around abortion. New technology makes it easier to apprehend the humanity of a growing child and imagine a fetus as a creature with moral status.

Pro-life advocates have used fetal research to underpin abortion reform:

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