Steven Andrew Jacobs on biologists' consensus on when life begins.

Date
Jun 2019
Type
Academic / Technical Report
Source
Steven Andrew Jacobs
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Secondary
Reference

Steven Andrew Jacobs, Balancing Abortion Rights and Fetal Rights: A Mixed Methods Mediation of the U.S. Abortion Debate, Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Chicago, June 2019, 252-253

Scribe/Publisher
The University of Chicago
People
Steven Andrew Jacobs
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Results on viability and birth were interesting. Most of those who wrote about those two points were pro-choice, few neutral and pro-life participants wrote about viability or birth. While 30% of very pro-choice participants wrote that life begins at viability or some point after, it was a much lower rate among participants who identified as pro-choice (16%), neutral (7%), pro-life (4%), and very pro-life (5%). Despite this variability, Figure 5.2 shows that biologists across the ideological spectrum wrote about fertilization when given an opportunity to write about their view of when a biological human’s life begins.

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