Reproductive rights and animal rights

Professor Sherry Colb speaks to us about reconciling the debates over reproductive rights and animal rights -- something that’s rarely discussed together and which was the subject of the book she co-authored with Michael Dorf, Beating Hearts. Professor Colb gives us an overview of the question “Do animal rights activists really care more about the well-being of nonhuman animals than they do about tiny humans?” and the converse question, “Do pro-life activists really care more about a human cell than about the suffering of fully sentient animals whose evolutionary history, brain chemistry, and emotional repertoire closely resemble our own?"

Credits 

Host: Emilia A. Leese 

Guest: Prof Sherry Colb; https://verdict.justia.com/author/colb; http://www.dorfonlaw.org; and on Twitter @SherryColb

Production & Engineering: Jim Moore of Bloody Vegans Productions 

Music Opening theme: “Flashbacks” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business  

Intermission: "Half Life" by Meredith Avila 

Closing theme: “Tear Things Up” by Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business