“Abortion can be a powerful act of love”: The danger of performative truth
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 10 May 2023
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I found this headline in a recent Time article jarring: “If someone you love has an abortion, give them a gift.” The author writes: “Abortion can be a powerful act of love.” This is the first time I’ve seen abortion called an “act of love” for the unborn baby whose life it ends.
Read how America has turned performative claims into constative claims.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Jim Denison has said that the coming tsunami is his most pivotal book to date. |
| 0:10.0 | Readers agree. One reviewer wrote, Dr. Jim Denison has provided a strong, important analysis of our times. |
| 0:18.0 | The Christian worldview has moved from acceptance to toleration to rejection in our |
| 0:23.6 | lifetime. The book provides examples of how the ground has shifted beneath our feet in an increasingly |
| 0:30.6 | secular, hostile America. Yet, Dr. Denison reminds the reader that God redeems all that he allows. |
| 0:38.7 | There are biblical steps we can take to bear faithful witness to the love and truth of God |
| 0:44.7 | in our circle of influence. |
| 0:47.0 | The reviewer concludes, every believer needs to carefully, prayerfully read this timely book. |
| 0:54.7 | Today, request your copy of the coming tsunami at the daily article.org. |
| 1:04.7 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. |
| 1:07.4 | Today is Wednesday, May the 10th, 2023. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article, |
| 1:13.6 | written by Denison Forum CEO and co-founder Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:18.7 | Quote, we have become a nation that is more focused on the right to kill than the right to live. |
| 1:25.1 | End quote. This is how California governor Gavin Newsom responded to the mass |
| 1:30.1 | shooting in Allen, Texas, as he criticized Congress for not passing gun control reform. However, |
| 1:36.4 | given his passionate support for elective abortion and efforts to bring women from other states to |
| 1:41.5 | California's abortion clinics, pro-life supporters like me find |
| 1:45.7 | a statement tragically ironic. On the same theme, I found this headline in a recent time article, |
| 1:53.0 | jarring. If someone you love has an abortion, give them a gift. The writer thanks, quote, |
| 1:59.4 | friends and neighbors who dropped off big pots of soup |
| 2:02.0 | and home-baked brownies and ice cream when she had her abortion. She writes, quote, abortion can be |
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