What Does Doug Wilson Believe?

Health, Safety & Science

Birth Control That Stops a Fertilized Egg From Implanting Is Abortion, as Serious as Murder

An [abortifacient?] that causes a fertilized egg to not implant is an abortion in my understanding.

In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2025, from Sam Harris, cited to the source.

I can come with you partway. If the metric were suffering, then certainly an [abortifacient?]... An [abortifacient?] that causes a fertilized egg to not implant is an abortion in my understanding. [Sam Harris: “And that's equivalently—that concerns you to the same degree as a murder.”] Yeah.

— Douglas Wilson, interviewed by Sam Harris, “Sam Harris & Christian Nationalist Doug Wilson FULL EPISODE (443)”, Sam Harris (Making Sense podcast), at 1:31:45, November 12, 2025 Source ↗

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