Link: Stanley Hauerwas On Abortion
6th October 2011
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Via a news article, I stumbled across some writings by a guy named
Stanley Hauerwas, a "Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics
at Duke University."
I was impressed with what I read, and so I searched a bit more. Tonight I came across this speech given in 1990 on the topic of abortion and the church.
This is probably the most eye opening article I've read on this topic. It gets out of the usual ruts of rights and arguments and laws, and goes further to the heart of the matter. I can't claim to quite agree on all the fine points, but the large bulk of it does seem like truth to me, and plainly told. I found it challenging.
It's a long one, so you'll want to have spare time and maybe a coffee handy.