Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Cathergance's Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

Today I'm going to be rebutting an essay in the New Yorker called Is Abortion Sacred

by Gia Tolentino.

And so it has a lot of the standard arguments I've been hearing lately.

One of them is among pro-choice individuals I find surprising.

Our claims that abortion is not actually against biblical teaching, like the Bible supports

being pro-choice.

The Catholic Church hasn't always been against abortion.

As if, and maybe it's because they think that abortion is just a religious issue.

It's true that many religious people, many Christians, are pro-life.

It's probably true the majority of people who are pro-life are Christian.

Although the majority of people in this country still identify as believing in God, I think

a majority of them still say that they're Christian.

But most of the people who made up the opposition to racial segregation were Christian.

Think about the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

And he led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference just because you're religious doesn't

mean you can't have a view on a human rights issue.

So instead of just engaging the basic human rights arguments, they try to muddy the water

by saying, oh, well, the church isn't really against this.

And there's all these other factors we have to consider.

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