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I’ve been struck this year by how often I hear something like: “I could never vote for Biden. He would kill babies.” There are millions of Americans, mostly evangelical Christians, who fervently identify as “pro-life” in a way that is focused almost obsessively on overturning Roe v. Wade. |
I bet they don’t know that among the newspapers that welcomed the Roe decision was the Baptist Press, or that the National Association of Evangelicals approved of a legal right to abortion in the early 1970s. My column today looks back at the biblical and historical roots of today’s fervent “pro-life” movement — and notes that there aren’t a lot. The Bible never directly mentions abortion, and the most relevant passage (Exodus 21:22) suggests that a fetus is not the same as a human life. |
With Amy Coney Barrett now on the Supreme Court, with millions of Americans of faith poised to vote for a president largely because of his stance on abortion, it seemed time for me to write a column to try to encourage the incipient movement to reinterpret “pro-life” in a broader way. Please read! To Minimize Abortion, Here Are 4 Reasons We Should Focus on Poverty Instead of Abortion https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/to-minimize-abortion-here-are-4-reasons.html |
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