On January 22, 1973, in its Roe v. Wade decision, the U. S. Supreme Court, by a 7 to 2 vote, ruled that the states could make no legal restrictions against abortion in the first three months of the mother’s pregnancy. In the second three months, restrictions could be applied only to make the procedure safer for the mother, and in the last three months, the state could enact legislation to protect “potential life” unless the health or life of the mother was in danger.… Continue Reading
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DOES EXODUS 21 ALLOW FOR ABORTION?
No. Exodus 21 is sometimes cited as evidence that the Bible allows for abortion. Some say that Exodus 21 allows for abortion because it suggests that the life of the unborn child is of less value than the life of the mother. This passage deals with accidental injury to a pregnant woman, while abortion is the intentional killing of an unborn child.… Continue Reading
WHERE WILL WE BE IN 2040?
(Note: Originally written in 2006)
Peter Singer is a professor of ethics at Princeton University. He is well known for supporting euthanasia and infanticide and many other controversial practices. He made a prediction about the future of public opinion in the September-October issue of Foreign Policy. He forecast that by 2040, “only a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists will defend the view that every human life, from conception to death, is sacrosanct.”… Continue Reading
CHANGE THE PAST/CHANGE THE FUTURE
I enjoy movies and TV shows where time travel allows people to go back and change the past. The idea of going back in time to change or correct the past has always appealed to me, because when the past is changed it also changes the future. History is changed: some never live who would have lived otherwise, and others who before met untimely early deaths, now live.… Continue Reading