The same pro abortion defender is a dedicated vegetarian who objects to killing pigs. The abortion supporters in the audience were upset that he did not argue with the woman's bodily autonomy arguments but the professor pointed out that he was a published professor and taunted them saying they could not find anyone who thought that way to stand up to Gray. It is truly scary that this man is a published professor but maybe his outlandish statements will cause those in the undecided category to consider how illogical the pro abortion side is. So in that sense, the professor did the pro life community a service. Examine this excerpts:
Representing the pro-life side of the debate was Stephanie Gray, ( pictured above) co-founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform. Facing Gray was Dr. Mark Mercer, chairperson of the philosophy department at Halifax’s St. Mary’s University, who has in the past won the ire of pro-abortion activists for defending the rights of pro-lifers to express their opinions on university campuses.
Mercer agreed that the unborn are human beings, and that abortion is the deliberate killing of a human being, but argued that the notion of “human being” is not a “morally relevant concept.” Individuals are not special by virtue of their “species membership,” he said, but become “persons” and worthy of protection because they possess certain “ethically salient properties” such as the ability to experience pain or pleasure, self-consciousness, and rationality.
According to Mercer, a child likely only gains personhood at around 18 months to two years of age, and he also suggested at one point that adult pigs might be persons.A principled vegetarian, he agreed that it could be wrong to kill a pig even though he believes it’s acceptable to kill a child in the womb.
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