APOLOGIA

APOLOGIA is a blog in which I address topics having to do with faith, science, logic, ethics, and politics, and in which I try to use careful reasoning and evidence to seek—and defend—truth. APOLOGIA is also a place where I provide links (in the margin) to my books and other writings. Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, retired (formerly Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence University College, Manitoba, Canada)

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August 28, 2019

Untangling popular “pro-choice” claims and arguments concerning abortion

My latest contribution to Political Animal Magazine: Untangling popular “pro-choice” claims and arguments concerning abortion.
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Hendrik van der Breggen

Hendrik van der Breggen

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I am an independent writer and philosopher-at-large. To support my work, purchase my books:

  • APOLOGIA: The Columns: A Defence of Mere Christianity
  • TRUTH, LOGIC, KNOWLEDGE: Articles of Critical Thinking
  • Untangling Popular Pro-Choice Arguments: Critical Thinking about Abortion
  • Untangling Popular Pro-MAID Arguments: Critical Thinking about Medical Assistance in Dying
  • Untangling Popular Anti-Israel Arguments: Critical Thinking about the Israel-Hamas War (booklet)
  • Untangling Trudeau: MAID, COVID, ABORTION, LGBTQ+
  • A Defence of Israel: Critical Thinking about the Israel-Hamas War

FREE pdf of my booklet about Israel-Hamas War:

  • Untangling Popular Anti-Israel Arguments

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The views I express in this blog may be mistaken, though I like to think they're not, so read carefully.

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  • The Blind Men and the Elephant
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  • Acorns and oak trees...and abortion
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  • DNA and Intelligent Design
  • Aborting Trudeau's (other) abortion argument
  • Skepticism about Evolution
  • Science versus philosophy? (Part 1)
  • Kalam Cosmological Argument
  • About consent and pregnancy

My articles at Political Animal Magazine

  • Racism Comes to the Shire
  • Is Abortion Health Care?
  • Defund the police?
  • Two-Wrongs-Make-A-Right Fallacy
  • Various Thoughts about Recent Race-related Protests and Riots
  • Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID): Pros and Cons
  • Jagmeet Singh, abortion, and illogic
  • Untangling Popular Pro-Choice Claims and Arguments Concerning Abortion
  • Reverse Discrimination and Employment, Political Animal Magazine
  • Lady Gaga and Moral Reasoning
  • Much Is Lost
  • Are We Failing to Educate Our Children?
  • Faith vs. Reason?
  • Pro-life Replies to Pro-choice Arguments
  • Perspective Needed on Abortion
  • Tolerance
  • Perfect Storm
  • Canada's Transgender Rights Bill is Incoherent—and that's a concern
  • On Forcing Your Religion Via Canada's Transgender Rights Bill

My articles at Christian Research Journal

  • Awakening from the nightmare: A critical overview of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy
  • Reasonable skepticism about radical skepticism
  • Seeds of their own destruction: David Hume's fatally flawed arguments against miracle reports

Some of my articles published elsewhere

  • Illinois Family Institute
  • Mercator
  • MySteinbach
  • The Stream
  • Winnipeg Free Press
  • Winnipeg Sun

My award-winning popular articles

  • On Forcing Your Religion via Canada’s Transgender Rights Bill (Political Animal Magazine)
  • Did the Easter miracle happen? (The Record)

Some of my academic work (pdfs)

  • Book review: The God Delusion (Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics)
  • Dawkins' Logico-Philosophical Blunder: A Reply to a Dawkins Apologist (Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics)
  • Hume, Miracle Reports, and Credibility (my UWindsor MA thesis in which I closely examine David Hume's argument against miracle reports)
  • Hume's Scale: How Hume Counts a Miracle's Improbability Twice (Philosophia Christi)
  • It's NOT interpretation all the way down: A defense of simple seeing (Global Journal of Classic Theology)
  • Language, Logic, and the Beginning of Human Being: Francis Collins' Fallacies (Global Journal of Classic Theology)
  • Miracle Reports, Moral Philosophy, and Contemporary Science (my UWaterloo PhD dissertation, in which I set out a detailed critique of Hume's argument against miracle reports, take a careful look at various ethical theories, examine the philosophical and scientific legitimacy of intelligent design, plus argue about a few other interesting things)

My Provf talks

  • A cumulative case for Christian faith
  • Debunking Dawkins' Objection: Who designed the designer?
  • Same-sex marriage is like a Subway sandwich?

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