41 U.S. cities ban abortion as Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn
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The count comes from Mark Lee Dickson, founder and head of Sanctuary Cities for Life - BPNews
Does “Breath of Life” in Scripture Mean an Unborn Child Isn’t Human Until They’re Born and Breathing?
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“…some prochoice religious groups argue that as Adam’s life began when God breathed into him, so each human life begins when the baby is born and takes his first breath. This demonstrates a misunderstanding of the nature of the unborn’s respiration.” - Randy Alcorn
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Evangelicals and secularists on abortion, Covid and death
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“I have been trying to understand their differing responses to Covid and abortion. Many evangelicals are pro-life on abortion, not on Covid. Secularists generally are pro-life on Covid, not on abortion.” - C. Post
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The U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights Sidesteps Abortion
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“The reasons for the omission are perhaps understandable. For one thing, the report’s introduction notes that the commissioners ‘are not of one mind on many issues where there are conflicting interpretations of human rights claims,’ including abortion.
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New research from the Cultural Research Center: “only 39 percent of Americans today view human life as ‘sacred’”
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“More than one-in-three adults (37 percent) say ‘life is what you make it, but it has no absolute value,’ while a little more than one-in-ten say ‘life does not attain its full value until we reach our highest point of evolution and expression.’ Another one out of ten adults admitted they did not know how to appraise the value of human life.” - TGC
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Black Lives Matter
Our nation was rocked by the image of a white police officer pressing his knee onto the neck of a black man for more than eight minutes. George Floyd could be heard gasping for breath and moaning “I can’t breathe,” but Officer Derek Chauvin refused to back off. Bystanders appealed for Chauvin to release his victim, but he ignored them. The resulting death plunged the USA into chaos as protesters by the thousands took to the streets of nearly every city, and in some places windows were smashed, stores looted and buildings torched.
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Can We Measure the Value of Saving Human Lives in Dollars? Somber Calculations in a Time of Plague
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“These paradoxes have a root cause. They all depend on a certain kind of economic model of practical rationality. They assume that the value of a human action can be identified with the expected value of the consequences of that action.
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How can pro-life Christians also support capital punishment?
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“For nearly two millennia now, this passage [Rom 13:4] has been seen by most Christian faith traditions both as authorizing governmental authority and authorizing their right to use lethal force to punish evil doers, domestically through the criminal justice system and internationally through the military in “just war” conflicts with other nations.” - Richard Land
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Abortion Regret Isn’t a Myth, Despite New Study
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“What women may refuse to disclose to researchers at a clinic, they’re confessing in Bible studies decades later.” - Christianity Today
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New report by the National Council on Disability: assisted suicide laws tend to remove treatment choices from patients
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Neil Romano, chairman of the NCD “…in practice, they often remove choices when the low-cost option is ending one’s life versus providing treatments to lengthen it or services and supports to improve it” - Christian Headlines
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