Status Updates From Defending Life: A Moral and...

“ a society whose ethic asserts that certain pre-born human beings, forfeit their right to life simply because they have a certain physical deformity or mental handicap is a society that has put in its social fabric premises that will make it more likely for it citizens to judge those born human beings with the same flaws as having lives ‘not worth living’”

1) the difference between the pro-life and pro choice position is NOT about inconsistent moral principles
2) the position of Roe holds that the states interest in prenatal life becomes compelling after viability,except for preservation of life/health for mother. What defines health was made way too broad by Doe v Bolton (1973). Thus, by the 1980s, some justices of the majority opinion in Roe had changed their view

Much more readable than the ones I read before, and very well put together.

The book has extremely progressed on its argument making so far. It has brought in almost every pro-choice argument and created a counter for it. it has also brought up the procedures for abortion which allow the readers to really see the immorality of it.

So far the book has mainly focused on the courts argument in the opinion of Roe v. Wade. The author takes a deep look at the chief justices written opinion and depicts the fallacies and faults in his argument and provides a counter argument for each