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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible? (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We discuss widely read papers about abortion, including an excerpt from Roe v. Wade (1973) and Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion" (1971).

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to a partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who had one point

0:11.4

said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

0:14.5

Our question for season 2 episode 1, now it's just a episode 301, is something like

0:20.7

is abortion morally permissible.

0:23.2

We look at widely anthologized papers on this topic by Judith Jarvis, Thompson, Mary Ann

0:29.1

Warren and Don Marquist, plus a bit of the text of Roe v. Wade.

0:33.6

For more information, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

0:37.4

This is Mark Linson, my ray of person plant who is here by claiming a right to your home

0:41.8

in Madison, Wisconsin.

0:43.0

This is Seth Paskin with a future like yours in Austin, Texas.

0:48.1

This is Wes Aulon looking for to do a future like mine in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

0:53.4

This is Dylan Casey considering whether I am an acorn or an oak tree in Madison, Wisconsin.

0:59.6

Welcome to the new century.

1:01.6

I've got to keep saying that.

1:03.2

Where?

1:04.2

New century.

1:05.2

We're past episode 301 until you come up with a better way of counting hundreds, the new

1:11.5

batch of hundred episodes.

1:13.7

It's not a century, I understand, but I need a new word.

1:17.6

This is something, is it the first class we ever T.A.D. Wes?

1:23.1

Contemporary moral problems?

1:24.8

Probably.

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