Abortion, the Law, and the Church’s Witness Against Violence

The U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which had established the legal freedom to have an abortion as a Constitutional right.  This has moved the question of the legality of abortion back into the democratic legislative process (where it belongs), and a number of states have quickly moved to make … Read more

Why Abortion is Incompatible with Christian Ethics

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Christian Ethics and Violence

Abortion is the deliberate killing of a preborn human being.  From earliest times, and with remarkable consistency, the Church has condemned abortion as unjust and immoral.  According to the Christian Tradition, abortion is murder. Recently, however, some modern Western Christians have departed from the consensus of the Christian Tradition on this issue and have condoned … Read more