From January 1, 2022 post
Life begins at conception. I am against abortion, period. Abortion is the taking of human life, which (outside of law enforcement, self-defense, or national defense) is wrong whether from a legal, moral or faith-based perspective. Even for rape and incest, I think it is wrong to in effect punish the child for the sins of the attacker and would counsel adoption if the mother does not want to keep the child. For issues of danger to the mother’s life, as C. Everett Koop put it, “In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.” Abortion, as conceived of today, presents us with a moral dilemma. For example, if a pregnant woman is assaulted while walking in a park and the baby she is carrying dies, the perpetrator would rightly be charged with murder in most jurisdictions. Yet the same woman could go to an abortion provider in most jurisdictions and have an abortion which would be considered perfectly acceptable. In one case taking the baby’s life is considered murder, yet in another, it is considered acceptable. This is a problem. Pregnancy termination has been framed as a women’s rights issue. The rights of women involved are fundamental, but they must be integrated with the rights of an unborn human to life. We must find a better approach to the issue of unwanted pregnancy than at-will abortions at all stages of pregnancy, an approach that seeks to honor both the rights of pregnant women and the rights of the unborn child they carry.
Original source can be found here
