Episode 17: Let's Talk About Abortion

The Fifth Column Community Show

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