“Abortion is often talked about as a grave act. But bringing a new life into the world can feel like the decision that more clearly risks being a moral mistake…The fact that a quarter of women, regardless of their beliefs, also decide to end pregnancies at some point in their lifetimes: are they not acting in accordance with God’s plan for them, too?”
— Trent Horn responds to New Yorker
A friend wondered why I posted this. I did so because these are the rationalizations that we will need to reply to again and again, especially after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Note: Apologies for previously attributing this essay to The New York Times.
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— Fr. Frank Pavone: Scripture teaching against abortion
— Why the Modern Democratic State Needs Abortable Children (Jason Morgan, New Oxford Review)
— What the early Church believed and taught
— The question that matters most… (Trent Horn, Catholic Answers)
— Trent Horn on abortion in biblical times
First Things Magazine: “To identify as pro-life post-Dobbs is not simply to hold an opinion many regard as wrong; it is to be part of an act of political and social “oppression.” And predictably, many Christians are feeling the need to “nuance” their relationship to the overturning of Roe. The National “Catholic” Reporter has excelled itself in this regard… Continue (quotation marks supplied)
Jeremiah 1:5…
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Psalm 139:13-16…
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Exodus 20:13…
“You shall not murder.
Isaiah 49:1…
Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.
Psalm 127:3…
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Deuteronomy 27:25…/ 1…
“‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Luke 1:41…/ 1…
And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,
Job 31:15…/ 1…
Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
Psalm 139:13…/ 1…
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
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— Fr. Frank Pavone: Scripture teaching against abortion
— Why the Modern Democratic State Needs Abortable Children (Jason Morgan, New Oxford Review)
— What the early Church believed and taught
— The question that matters most… (Trent Horn, Catholic Answers)
— Trent Horn on abortion in biblical times
First Things Magazine: “To identify as pro-life post-Dobbs is not simply to hold an opinion many regard as wrong; it is to be part of an act of political and social “oppression.” And predictably, many Christians are feeling the need to “nuance” their relationship to the overturning of Roe. The National “Catholic” Reporter has excelled itself in this regard… Continue (quotation marks supplied)
Jeremiah 1:5…
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Psalm 139:13-16…
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Exodus 20:13…
“You shall not murder.
Isaiah 49:1…
Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.
Psalm 127:3…
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Deuteronomy 27:25…/ 1…
“‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Luke 1:41…/ 1…
And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,
Job 31:15…/ 1…
Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
Psalm 139:13…/ 1…
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
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