The Bigfoot Files & Intellectual Dishonesty in Anti-Abortion Arguments
Recorded on 21 July 2019: Topics The Bigfoot Files & Intellectual Dishonesty in Anti-Abortion Arguments
Segment 1: The Bigfoot Files
- He asked the FBI to analyze ‘Bigfoot’ hair 40 years ago and never heard back. Until now., Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 06 Jun 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/06/he-asked-fbi-analyze-bigfoot-hair-years-ago-never-heard-back-until-now - Search for Bigfoot Outlives The Man Who Created Him, Timothy Egan, New York Times, 03 Jan 2003
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/03/us/search-for-bigfoot-outlives-the-man-who-created-him.html - Patterson–Gimlin film, Wikipedia (Accessed 06 July 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson–Gimlin_film - Lie detector of Bob “Bigfoot” Heironimus – Man in the suit, YouTube, 17 Feb 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xha5d_Fc7jg&feature=youtu.be - Patterson Bigfoot video was a fake – Part II, YouTube, 26 Dec 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLmsYRnP5o
Segment 2: Intellectual Dishonesty in Anti-Abortion Arguments
- TRAP LAWS
- Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, Guttmacher Institute, 01 July 2019
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/targeted-regulation-abortion-providers - Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) Laws, Guttmacher Institute, Feb 2018
https://www.guttmacher.org/evidence-you-can-use/targeted-regulation-abortion-providers-trap-laws - State Laws and Policies, Guttmacher Institute, (accessed 06 July 2019)
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/laws-policies - ABORTION
- Roe v. Wade, Wikipedia (accessed 31 May 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade - Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Wikipedia (accessed 31 May 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey - ABORTION FACTS & STATISTICS
- Induced Abortion in the US Fact Sheet, Guttmacher Institute, Jan 2018
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states
- Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2015, Surveillance Summaries, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC, 23 Nov 2018
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/ss/ss6713a1.htm - Fetal Heart May Develop Later In Pregnancy Than Thought, Robert Preidt, HealthDay, MedicineNet, 21 Feb 2013
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=167987 - ANTI-ABORTION ARGUMENTS
- Arguments Against Abortion, Kerby Anderson, Probe Ministries, 1997
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/arg-abor.html - Abortion: Arguments against abortion, BBC Ethics, (accessed 14 Jun 2019)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/mother/against_1.shtml - Ten non-religious reasons against abortion, Mark Powell, The Spectator Australia, 27 Mar 2018
https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/03/ten-non-religious-reasons-against-abortion/ - How Savita Halappanavar’s Death Spurred Ireland’s Abortion Rights Campaign, Megan Specia, New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/world/europe/savita-halappanavar-ireland-abortion.html - BODILY AUTONOMY
- Bodily integrity, Wikipedia (accessed 06 July 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_integrity - Griswold v. Connecticut, Wikipedia (accessed 06 July 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut - McFall v. Shimp, Wikipedia (accessed 04 July 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McFall_v._Shimp - INTELLECTUAL INCONSISTENCIES IN ANTI-ABORTION POSITIONS
- Romney says he doesn’t support Alabama abortion law, David Beavers, Politico, 19 May 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/19/mitt-romney-alabama-abortion-law-1332867 - Alabama abortion law: Trump says he supports anti-abortion laws with exceptions for rape, incest, Leada Gore, Alabama Media Group, AL.com, 19 May 2019
https://www.al.com/news/2019/05/alabama-abortion-law-trump-says-he-support-anti-abortion-laws-with-exceptions-for-rape-incest.html - California Senate passes bill requiring public universities to offer abortion pill on campus, Owen Daugherty, The Hill, 21 May 2019
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/444777-california-senate-passes-bill-requiring-public-universities-to-offer - Nevada Law Removing Abortion Restrictions Passes State Assembly, Matthew S Schwartz, NPR, 22 May 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/22/725595052/nevada-law-removing-abortion-restrictions-passes-state-assembly - US groups sue Alabama over ‘extreme’ abortion ban, BBC News, 24 May 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48401063 - Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant, Farah Stockman, New York Times, 03 July 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/us/charges-dropped-alabama-woman-pregnant.html
- ABORTION VS CONTRACEPTIVE AVAILABILITY & SEX EDUCATION
- New Clarity for the U.S. Abortion Debate: A Steep Drop in Unintended Pregnancy Is Driving Recent Abortion Declines, Joerg Dreweke, Guttmacher Institute, 18 Mar 2016
https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2016/03/new-clarity-us-abortion-debate-steep-drop-unintended-pregnancy-driving-recent-abortion - Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes, Grant Miller and Christine Valente, Demography 53,4 (2016): 979-1009. doi:10.1007/s13524-016-0492-8, 06 July 2016
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5016566/ - Relationships between contraception and abortion: a review of the evidence, Marston & Cleland, Int Fam Plan Perspect. 2003 Mar;29(1):6-13
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12709307/ - FACT CHECK: BIRTH CONTROL PREVENTS UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES, Planned Parenthood, 26 Aug 2015
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/pressroom/fact-check-birth-control-prevents-unintended-pregnancies - Women trying hard to avoid unwanted pregnancy, research shows, British Pregnancy Advisory Service, 04 Feb 2014
https://www.bpas.org/about-our-charity/press-office/press-releases/women-trying-hard-to-avoid-unwanted-pregnancy-res/ - Contraception Leads to More Abortions, Fr. Shenan J Boquet, Human Life International, 30 Oct 2017
https://www.hli.org/2017/10/contraception-leads-abortions/
- Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates: Why We Need Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S, Kathrin F Stanger-Hall and David W Hall, PloS one 6,10 (): e24658. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024658, 14 Oct 2011
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194801/ - Funding for Abstinence-Only Education and Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: Does State Ideology Affect Outcomes?, Fox, Himmelstein, Khalid, and Howell, Am J Public Health. 2019 Mar;109(3):497-504. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304896. Epub 2019 Jan 24
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30676806 - REDUCING TEENAGE PREGNANCY, Planned Parenthood, June 2014
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/94/d7/94d748c6-5be0-4765-9d38-b1b90d16a254/reducing_teen_pregnancy.pdf - PRO-LIFE VS DEATH PENALTY
- Like Rick Perry, most ‘pro-life’ Americans OK with death penalty, Robert P Jones, Washington Post, 15 Sep 2011
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/blogs/figuring-faith/post/like-rick-perry-most-pro-life-americans-ok-with-death-penalty/2011/09/15/gIQAV06XUK_blog.html - Why It’s Completely Consistent To Be Pro-Life And Pro-Death Penalty, Benjamin R Dierker, The Federalist, 28 Nov 2018
https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/26/completely-consistent-pro-life-pro-death-penalty/ - Can you be pro-life and pro-death penalty?, Carol Costello, CNN, 28 May 2014
https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/14/opinion/costello-pro-life-pro-death-penalty/index.html - Pro-Life Perspective on the Death Penalty, Focus on the Family, 13 Apr 2017
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/family-q-and-a/pro-life/pro-life-perspective-on-the-death-penalty - National Polls and Studies, Death Penalty Information Center (accessed 25 May 2019)
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/national-polls-and-studies
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