PART 1:
Is Belief in the Humanity of the Fetus Just “Medieval Superstition?” We Must Confront the Denial of Fetal Personhood and Recognize the Fervor to Deny Personhood as a Denial of All Human Dignity
In the confusion around us, Christians need to see some issues very clearly, issues that emerge simply because arguments, all of a sudden, seem to break out into public conversation, arguments that demand our attention. Here’s one. Margaret Wertheim, writing for the Los Angeles Times, offers an article and just notice the headline, “Fetal personhood has a whiff of medieval theology.”
Now, wait just a minute. You understand immediately what’s going on here. For one thing, how often do you see a headline with the word theology in it in the secular age, but you know exactly what’s behind this. You don’t even have to look at the article yet. Trust me, we will. All you have to do is see the headline to know that the use of the phrase medieval theology along with fetal personhood is to say, “This is nothing more than antiquarian, oppressive, some kind of presupposition and superstition.”
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