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Sep 2022
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Ep. 301: Is Abortion Morally Permissible...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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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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