How Intrasexual Competition Suppresses Female Fertility with Dr Dani Sulikowski | Quillette Cetera Ep. 54
Behavioural scientist Dr Dani Sulikowski unpacks the evolutionary logic behind women advising other women not to reproduce.
Abortion
10 articles
An Australian Perspective on Abortion
The closest example of a counterfactual to Roe v. Wade is Australia, where there is a federal system with no unifying law or ruling concerning abortion.
Imagining What a (Real) ‘Pro-Life’ Agenda Would Look Like
Now is the time for a pro-life approach to be mobilized in defense of all human life, not just zygotes, blastocysts, embryos, and fetuses.
The Tragedy of the Unwanted Child: What Ancient Cultures Did Before Abortion
Safe abortion is the modern cure for the ancient heartbreaks of neonaticide and abandonment.
Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel
The abortion novels that proliferated in the late 1960s were filled with characters who are forced by carelessness and circumstance to make the most agonizing of personal choices.
Biology Won’t Solve Your Problems with Abortion
Claiming that biological terms are authoritative and unambiguous is either a misunderstanding of biology or a failure to appreciate the difficulties inherent in applying linguistic categories to natural phenomena.
Rethinking Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Defense of Abortion
The abortion debate is primarily concerned with the bodily autonomy of the mother and/or of the fetus. The rights and duties of the father are seldom discussed.
The Moral Panic about Eugenics Poses a Threat to Abortion Rights
One of the reasons abortion bans on the basis of prenatal diagnoses may have received relatively little attention is because they leave the pro-choice Left in an uncomfortable ethical position.
Rethinking Abortion Advocacy
Arbitrary doesn’t mean random and it doesn’t mean cruel.
The Abortion Issue Isn’t About ‘The Patriarchy’
The debate over the morality and legality of abortion is one of the most divisive and enduring issues in American public life.