When Does the Individual Begin? The Question That Reframes Everything | Bill Norton
The Jenny Beth ShowJuly 26, 202600:08:50

When Does the Individual Begin? The Question That Reframes Everything | Bill Norton

When does life begin is the wrong question, Bill Norton argues. Ask when the individual begins, and the science gives one clear answer.
Constitutional scholar Bill Norton tells Jenny Beth Martin how writing his book on the Declaration led him to rethink the entire abortion debate. Instead of arguing about when life begins, a question religions have answered a dozen different ways for thousands of years, Norton asks when the individual begins, because life, liberty, and property are individual rights. His answer rests on DNA and conception, and he explains how the identical-twins objection actually held his argument up rather than knocking it down.
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00:00 — The question everyone gets wrong
00:12 — Writing a book, stumbling into the debate
03:58 — Why only science can settle it
04:32 — The individual begins at conception
06:40 — The identical-twins test
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