Peter Kreeft

About the author: Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. He has written several books, including Three Approaches to Abortion and The Unaborted Socrates.

The 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, Roe v. Wade, must be overturned. Socratic logic suggests that if people know what an apple is, then they know what human beings are. If people know what human beings are, then they know that all human beings are entitled to human rights, simply because they are human. By this logic, abortion is wrong because pre-born humans are entitled to the same human rights that already-born humans enjoy. This conclusion is based upon the assumptions that life begins at conception, that all humans have a right to life, and that the law must protect human rights...