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Thanks for listening and thanks for your support at the end of 2023. So there are a lot of excuses, a lot of justifications. One might even call them

arguments, although a lot of them amount to arguments for abortion. What about the case of fetal disability or

abnormality? What about rape or incest? Or the classic, my body, my choice, more of an assertion than an argument.

Welcome back to issues etc I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to respond to the choice

argument for abortion pastor Michael Salink, he's executive director of

the Lutherans for Life, author of a chapter for the forthcoming book Objections Over ruled

3, answering arguments against Christianity. his chapter is titled,

Abortion is just a woman's personal choice.

Michael, welcome back.

Thank you so much.

I'm delighted to be here and to talk about a very important matter.

In general, why do we need to talk about abortion?

Primarily because it concerns our neighbors, of neighbors who are facing surprise pregnancies,

neighbors who may be facing surprise pregnancies in the future.

But secondly, because it concerns our culture and we want to be able to give a witness

to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and life issues like surprise

pregnancy provide an opportunity to give that kind of witness in a way that is

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