On this episode of the Case for Life, Scott Klusendorf breaks down philosopher Michael Tooley's mental continuity theory, which claims a right to life requires an actual (not just potential) self-aware subject with memories linking its experiences over time, meaning Tooley argues that infanticide can be justified. Scott exposes the recurring patterns beneath this and similar arguments, body-self dualism and arbitrarily chosen traits, showing why species membership and human nature, not cognitive performance, ground human equality. Once you learn to recognize these patterns, you'll be equipped to challenge them with confidence.

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The worldview premises that make abortion plausible to our fellow citizens didn't emerge in the 1960s—they're rooted in centuries of philosophical shifts, from the Enlightenment's fact-value split to today's outright rejection of human dignity. Scott Klusendorf traces this history through Nietzsche, Oxford's Bodleian Library, and the patient legislative work of abolitionists like Wilberforce and Lincoln, showing why real cultural change takes prudence, not impatience. Discover why understanding this history matters for defending life today on this episode of The Case for Life.

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Scott Klusendorf continues his series on answering the leading academic defenders of abortion by turning to Peter Singer, whose mental continuity view claims that no newborn, much less unborn child, is a person until it can value its own existence. Scott shows how Singer's argument rests on a faulty utilitarian ethic and a definition of personhood that cannot account for sleeping adults, coma patients, or anyone else who clearly remains a subject of rights. Join us as we learn how to answer one of the most influential thinkers in bioethics on this episode of The Case for Life.

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It's not your immediately exercisable traits that make you you—it's your nature. Host Scott Klusendorf explains why that means the unborn share our value and right to life. ▶️ Watch the full episode of The Case for Life.

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If self-awareness gives us value, what about someone in a coma? If feeling pain does, are some people worth more than others? Host Scott Klusendorf turns the performance view's own logic against it. ▶️ Watch the full episode of The Case for Life.

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An amoeba lacks rationality because of what it is; an embryo simply needs time to develop what it already is by nature. Host Scott Klusendorf names the distinction critics overlook. ▶️ Watch the full episode of The Case for Life.

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The pro-life case can be stated in three simple premises: it's wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being, abortion does that, therefore abortion is wrong. Host Scott Klusendorf walks through how that argument is defended with science and philosophy, then grounds it in the deeper "substance view" of human value — using his vintage '66 Mustang and his back deck to show why living things aren't like objects whose parts can be swapped until they're something new. The conclusion follows: because you are the same being you were at the one-cell stage, if you're intrinsically valuable now, you were intrinsically valuable then.

Watch the full episode for the complete argument: https://youtu.be/2A3mpvitMso

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Kate Greasley concedes the unborn are human but denies they're persons, so the whole debate turns on one question: when does morally relevant personhood begin? Host Scott Klusendorf sets up the real issue. ▶️ Watch the full episode of The Case for Life.

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Living things keep their identity through change because they have an underlying nature. Host Scott Klusendorf introduces the substance view of the human person. ▶️ Watch the full episode of The Case for Life.

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