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Thomas Fleming on abortion: Children are the property of God and stewardship belongs to parents

By Alliance Alert

Thomas Fleming writing at Chronicles: "The obvious solution is to fall back on the ancient view. Children are the gift and property of God, but the stewardship belongs to the parents and not to social workers. The implication would be that instead of trying to beef up abortion laws in general, Christians should focus on some specific targets. If one parent has the right to terminate a pregnancy, why should not the other parents have at least a veto power. Court rulings and laws that legalize abortions for minor daughters or at least facilitate them are unpopular and could be overturned. Re-empowering parents, then, is a more important objective than any attempt to strengthen the state?s control over life and over families." | This article is the second part of Fleming's discussion: Conservative Credo IV: Abortion

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).