Sanctity of Life

“Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, which is the third Sunday in January on the SBC calendar, was first observed by the convention in 1986.” - BPNews

“The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research organization formerly affiliated with Planned Parenthood, released a report earlier this month titled ‘State Policy Trends 2021: The Worst Year for Abortion Rights in Almost Half a Century.’” - CPost

“As the Supreme Court hears arguments on abortion law, bad rulings should get tossed out for good. So should the ‘surviveability’ standard.” - CToday

The count comes from Mark Lee Dickson, founder and head of Sanctuary Cities for Life - BPNews

“…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

“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

“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.

“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

“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.