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Teresa S. Collett: Abortion and the Image of God

By Alliance Alert

Teresa S. Collett writing at the University of St. Thomas Law School's Law Social Justice blog: "Abortion is justified on the basis that the child will be born handicapped, or was conceived through an act of violence, or will be poor and must struggle for survival from the very beginning . . . We presume that we can know the future of the child, with a certainty superior to that of God?s. Thus the intentional taking of a human life becomes an act of mercy rather than injustice. Yet it is an odd mercy that kills the subject of its concern, and a strange faith that elevates the time-bound and particular judgments of man over the deliberate creative act of God."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).