One of their aims is to provoke thinking about the moral dimension of extinguishing a being with a visibly beating heart.
While constitutional lawyers, ethicists, and theologians — in descending order of importance in the abortion debate — have been arguing in the 46 years since the Supreme Court attempted to settle the debate, some technologists have been making a consequential contribution to it. They have developed machines that produce increasingly vivid sonograms of fetal development. This concreteness partially explains the intensification of the debate.
