The A word revisited

What I ' ll say here I ' ve mostly said before, but unfortunately the reporters who work for the corporate media don ' t seem to know any of it and Democratic politicians probably do know it but won ' t say it, for some reason.The idea that " Christian " faith requires that abortion be outlawed is wholly modern. There is exactly one reference to abortion in the entire Bible. It ' s in the Old Testament, Numbers 5, and consists ofa ceremony for the purpose of inducing an abortionin the case of an unfaithful wife, to be performed by a priest. Abortion is mentioned exactly nowhere in the New Testament, even though abortion and for that matter infanticide were commonplace in ancient times.Catholic doctrine did not condemn abortion until 1869.Abortion did not become a salient issue for protestant evangelicals until 1979 - six years after Roe v Wade -- and the reason was that conservative activists needed a new issue to mobilize evangelicals once segregation was outlawed. And yes, conservative white protestants in the U.S. were historically white supremacist and generally still are.* There is no definitive answer as to when a fetus acquires the moral status of a person. You can think whatever you want about that I suppose but it should be obvious that a microscopic ball of cells is not a person. To most people, a functioning cerebral cortex is a requirement for personhood -- after all, we consider people to be legally dead if they don ' t have one even though their heart is be...
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