Chapter three, which focuses on abortion, provides a robust summary of the six most important cases that have shaped abortion case law, beginning with Roe v. By returning to the fundamental question about what it means to be human, Snead asks his readers to consider a more “capacious” understanding of humanity: human beings as embodied, vulnerable, social, and dependent beings whose good is found in community, and not simply the naked expression of self-determination. Carter Snead, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, lays bare the anthropological undergirding of abortion case law - an anthropology known as “expressive individualism”- and its implications for society. "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics" (Harvard University Press, 2020) by O. These scientific advancements uncover the hypocrisy of also treating fetuses as human beings that should be eliminated upon demand. Medical doctors treat these human beings as patients endowed with the right to life and who call forth from them a responsibility to save, thus many of these doctors are on the vanguard of new interventions that save lives. It includes stunning visual information that helps average readers conceptualize the fetus as a human being. Filled with important scientific advances, the brief contextualizes what Roe didn’t get right about the science. While Supreme Court briefs aren’t generally the easiest or most compelling reads, this 35-page document is an exception to the rule. and the Catholic Association Foundation (July 2021.) Jackson Women’s Health Organization by Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst, M.D., M.P.H., Grazie Pozo Christie, M.D., Colleen Malloy, M.D. Though heavily focused on stem cell research, this book provides an excellent summary, based on scientific realities, as to why it is immoral to take the life of a human being in the womb.Īmicus Curiae brief filed in support of the petitioners in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. George and philosophy professor Chris Tollefsen team up to provide a scientific and philosophical argument as to why the human embryo is a human being from the moment of conception.
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