US News and World Report’s “God and Country” blogger Dan Gilgoff published an interview between Doug Kmiec and Robert George who discussed a range of bioethics topics including when life begins, the moral status of the embryo and more.
Gilgoff described it like this: “Grab a beverage and get comfortable. George’s answers are by no means brief. But they present the antiabortion case in eloquent, often philosophical terms that draw deeply on modern science.” For some of these explanations, Tolstoy could have been more brief. Then again, when you have to hold positions this convoluted perhaps you could understand why the arguments have to become as complicated as George’s do.
(Read George’s own answer to his self-imposed question “Does the life of a human being begin at implantation? to see what I mean.)
Summer Johnson, PhD