0643. Refocusing the Abortion Debate – Dr. Hadley Arkes, 3/4/24
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When I saw pay the wonders close, |
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| 0:18.8 | sacred music for the season of l, Lutheran public radio.org. How do we refocus the abortion debate? It is not that the legislation in various states |
| 0:49.4 | is designed to serve as a distraction, but how do we kind of regain that ground where it seemed for a long time that at least the |
| 0:59.6 | pro-lifers were able to clearly articulate their views, whereas those who were pro-choice |
| 1:05.2 | operated from a lot of ignorance. |
| 1:07.6 | It's come to the point now where maybe the entire population of the United States needs to learn the truth and that is at |
| 1:14.2 | least when it comes to the Democratic platform abortion is should be legal and |
| 1:18.6 | easily accessible all nine months and even after birth. |
| 1:24.0 | Welcome back to issues etc. I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to talk about refocusing the abortion debate. |
| 1:29.0 | Hadley Arcus, he's Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence at Amherst College, |
| 1:33.4 | founder of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights |
| 1:36.5 | and the American founding. |
| 1:38.2 | He is architect of the original Born Alive Infants Protection Act |
| 1:41.7 | and author of several books including his latest |
| 1:43.4 | mere natural law originalism and the anchoring truths of the Constitution and a |
| 1:48.4 | recent column for the Federalist titled Republicans getting tripped up by IVF |
| 1:52.4 | should focus the abortion debate on infants born alive. |
| 1:56.7 | Hadley, welcome back. |
| 1:58.0 | Todd, thanks, we've been doing this for 20 years, I think you've been so terrific in |
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