This blog’s Matt will join Brendan Malone, and other speakers, to talk at the 2013 Pro Life Internship Program in Kapiti, Wellington which is running from 1-6 July 2013. Matt’s talks will be: Tuesday 2 July 15:00 – 16:00 Moral Relativism and Abortion Wednesday 3 July 09:00 – 10:00 Kant, Utilitarianism and Abortion 10:10 – […]
Entries Tagged as 'Feticide'
Matt on Radio: Women tells Court of Appeal being pregnant with a defective baby is an injury
March 5th, 2013 3 Comments
A New Zealand woman has gotten her case against the Accident Compensation Corporation (“ACC”) into the Court of Appeal. The Herald carried the story. Matt was interviewed for his view on Radio Rhema last week. ACC claim mother: I would have aborted Woman says she would have terminated pregnancy had she been told baby was […]
Tags: Abortion · ACC · Court of Appeal · Feticide · Radio Rhema
Life and Death – Matthew Flannagan Interviewed on Shine TV
October 2nd, 2012 40 Comments
Matt was interviewed on Life and Death issues for Shine TV’s Just Thinking show recently. The Episode aired last week.
Tags: Feticide · Just Thinking · MandM on Video · Shine TV
Published: “Feticide, the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint” in The Westminster Theological Journal
July 19th, 2012 11 Comments
Matt’s article “Feticide, the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint” is now available in Vol 74, No. 1 – Spring 2012 of The Westminster Theological Journal. An abstract of “Feticide, the Masoretic Text, and the Septuagint” follows: A long Christian tradition of moral reflection on feticide interprets feticide, the killing of a formed conceptus, as a violation of God’s law […]
Tags: Feticide · Masoretic Text · Septuagint · The Westminster Theological Journal
Francesca Minerva and Matthew Flannagan on “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” on Radio
February 29th, 2012 41 Comments
Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini‘s article “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” published in the Journal of Law, Ethics and Medicine is creating waves the world over. In a few hours, on the morning of Thursday 1 March, around 10:00am New Zealand time, Dr Minerva will be interviewed on this article on Radio Rhema’s Pat Brittenden […]
Tags: Abortion · Alberto Giubilini · Feticide · Francesca Minerva · Infanticide · Michael Tooley · Pat Brittenden · Peter Singer · Radio Rhema
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Contra Mundum: After Birth Abortion
April 5th, 2012 4 Comments
“What we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn baby) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.” These words, published in the prestigious “Journal of Medical Ethics” by ethicists Dr Francesca Minerva and Dr Alberto Giubilini, sparked outrage around the world. After-birth abortion is, of […]
Tags: Abortion · Alberto Giubilini · Contra Mundum · Ethics · Francesca Minerva · Infanticide · Investigate Magazine · Joel Feinberg