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Extra-Long (>70 mins)
Ethics
Roman Catholic

The Big Abortion Debate

Theologian

Helen Watt


Duration

83.42


Uploaded to YouTube

9 February 2015

Added to Database

20 August 2025


YouTube description

A debate on abortion between Dr Helen Watt (Anscombe Bioethics Centre) and Dr Anthony McCarthy (SPUC). The debate took place at a prolife conference and is pedagogical. Dr Watt is the author of Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics (Routledge) and Childbearing: The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion, and Childbirth (forthcoming); she has also edited several books in bioethics and in reproductive ethics. Dr McCarthy is a bioethicist at SPUC where he is Education and Publications Manager; he is also a Visiting Lecturer at the International Theological Institute at Trumau, Austria. He specialises in sexual ethics on which he has published academic articles and is preparing a book. He is the author of Cloning and Stem Cell Research (CTS).