What Today’s Abortion Dispute is Not About, by Michael Pakaluk

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, Nov. 9, 2023

Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is a professor in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. …

Americans after the Civil War had been well trained in a very simple ethical inference. Not everyone accepted it. Not everyone felt its force consistently.  Yes, there was a lot of hypocrisy and contrary social pressure.  “Prejudice” still held sway.  But still the skeleton of the logical inference was in place.  All human beings a created equal.  All are endowed with the right to life.

Suppose, then, there is a “being” who does not look like us – he has dark skin.  But we become clear that he is a human being. Therefore, he shares these rights. He cannot be killed on our whim. He cannot be enslaved. Whatever else happens, he must be left as a free man. …

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