Abortion Is Making Us Pagan: Should the Strong Crush the Weak?

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW176717537 BCX4"> <p><span data-contrast="none">Christians</span> <span data-contrast="none">who work in politics to</span> <span data-contrast="none">end legalized abortion do so because innocent lives are at stake.</span> <span data-contrast="none">That would be enough cause in and of itself. However,</span> <span data-contrast="none">abortion isn’t just one of the many issues that we should care about. In</span> <span data-contrast= "none">many</span> <span data-contrast="none">ways, abortion, perhaps more than any other single issue, symbolizes our society’s core beliefs. Simply put, Christian societies</span> <span data-contrast="none">do not</span> <span data-contrast= "none">kill</span> <span data-contrast="none">their</span> <span data-contrast="none">smallest, most vulnerable members.</span> <span data-contrast= "none">P</span><span data-contrast="none">agan societies, on the other hand, do. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/10/we-are-repaganizing?fbclid=IwAR00JGZUPxs3VrIfpTOED_3n1FMOtD9sBwCPNWLk4mrnLB0iB-U1Hd4hUBE"> <span data-contrast="none">In a fascinating recent essay published</span> <span data-contrast="none">at</span> <em><span data-contrast="none">First Things</span></em><span data-contrast="none">,</span></a> <span data-contrast="none">Louise Perry argued that the fight over abortion is really about whether we will remain, in any real sense, a Christian society, or we will re-paganize to the beliefs and values of pre-Christian times. Perry, author of the recent book</span> <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Sexual-Revolution/dp/1509549986"> <em><span data-contrast="none">The Case Against the Sexual Revolution</span></em></a><em><span data-contrast= "none">,</span></em> <span data-contrast="none">isn’t a Christian, though she admits she fi