Kennisha Hill reflects on her own miscarriage and how the Church can respond to the
loss of unborn life.
Second, Roe also had the effect, surely unforeseen by the Supreme Court, of bringing millions of evangelical Christians into the fight on
behalf of unborn life.
It was Doe that signaled the doom of legislative efforts to provide even modest
protection of unborn life — statutes of the type that are in force in most other liberal democracies (where the regulation of abortion has largely been left to be worked out in the ordinary democratic processes of bargaining, education, persuasion, and voting).
Either direct or indirect involvement with the
killing of unborn life is gravely wrong: enabling others to do the killing is not an acceptable way of dealing with this.
Catholicism in America will be diminished if it does not bring the art of prudence to bear in devising legal approaches to abortion that are compassionate toward pregnant women,
protective of unborn life, and directed toward the general welfare.»
For this reason, Evans counsels Christians to avoid the «embryonic life» narrative, which holds innocent human life to be inviolable from conception to natural death, because invoking the
value of unborn life pushes people into pugilistic abortion - rights corners.
Mixed in amongst a slew of lies about the
status of unborn life, the feminists offer a reassuring dose of reality.
In order to have any hope of winning the debate,
defenders of unborn life must understand how an argument that seems wholly reasonable to us can strike our opponents as a bizarre (therefore religious) doctrine wholly unconnected to the real world.