Tag Archives: pro-life

Abortion vs. Sacrificial Living

Posted on June 11, 2019 by intelligentchristianfaith

Does having a child mean your life is over? In this devotional message from Dr. John Ferrer we see how pro-life Christians can counteract abortion-choice culture with the knowledge that sacrificial living is the only way to TRULY live.  *** … Continue reading →

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Three Steps Needed to Make the Case for Abortion

Posted on December 23, 2017 by intelligentchristianfaith

Abortion-choice policy is a fiery debate. As with any hotly contested issue, this debate gives off a billowing plume of smoke clouding the air with ambiguity and confusion. In the interest of clearing the air, and clarifying the abortion debate … Continue reading →

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A Simple Answer to a Burning Question

Posted on November 8, 2017 by intelligentchristianfaith

If you were inside of a burning fertility clinic, and you had to choose between saving a toddler versus saving 1,000 frozen embryos, which would you pick? This is the thought experiment renewed in popular conversation by comedian, writer, and social … Continue reading →

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Is Planned Parenthood An Abortion Clinic?

Posted on May 29, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

Obviously, planned parenthood is an abortion provider, and they happen to be the single leading abortion provider in the U.S. But is that what they are “about”? Is that their overriding focus? Or should they be understood primarily as a … Continue reading →

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Human Rights or Person Rights, by: John D. Ferrer

Posted on May 16, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

“Human rights” are a major innovation of the modern world. Many trace the inception of this weighty concept to the Magna Carta of the English 13th century. Major statements and variations on human rights have occurred in the French and … Continue reading →

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15 Anti-Abortion Arguments

Posted on May 7, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

Picture by: Unknown (accessed 6 May 2013 at: http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/3263#comment-175) Arguments Against Abortion (c) John D. Ferrer, 6 May 2013 The Overall Argument Premise 1) Legality, where possible, should line up with morality. Premise 2) Abortion-on-demand is immoral yet can banned. Conclusion) Therefore … Continue reading →

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Abortion News

Posted on May 7, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

Boycotts Looming For Eden Foods over “Hobby-Lobby-esque” Contraception Coverage (18 July 2014) Congress Blocks Bill to Restore Contraceptive Coverage in Wake of Hobby Lobby Case (16 July 2014) Abortion Clinic Protections Proposed in Massachusetts (14 July 2014) High School Sophomore … Continue reading →

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Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion”

Posted on May 6, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

This famous monumental defense of abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson predates the Roe v. Wade decision by almost two years. In this article submitted to Philosophy & Public Affairs (Vol. 1, no. 1 [Fall 1971]), Thomson argues by various analogies that … Continue reading →

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What Is an Abortion? (John D. Ferrer, 6 May 2013)

Posted on May 5, 2013 by intelligentchristianfaith

Abortion is a fact of life, happening naturally across the whole animal kingdom–humans included. Among people these natural abortions are called miscarriages. But that is not the sense debated much in America. The issue at hand is non-natural abortion, also … Continue reading →

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