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🗓️ 26 May 2023
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0:00.0 | What we, to my mind, we have to be very clear about is how we can accord that life in the |
0:12.0 | world, perhaps the respect that we would want to give it. But at the same time, we don't |
0:21.8 | want to take anything away from the moral status of the woman who is carrying because |
0:29.3 | of whom she is in the nature of her. In the relationship that the embryo has as being |
0:38.5 | in her world, I think that the woman has the greater claim to moral and indeed just |
0:46.6 | a core integrity. And that's the thing. It would be wonderful to accord both the same moral |
0:56.4 | status and moral value. But the point is, is that you simply can't. I believe that all |
1:02.1 | humans are equal and that is my starting point for this debate and that includes the |
1:06.0 | human being in the womb. And I think we have to say that all of them are exactly equal |
1:09.6 | in terms of their value, their rights. Now, sometimes rights can conflict. You know, so |
1:15.7 | my right to do what I want, my conflict with your right to life if I want to end your |
1:20.6 | life. Now normally we would judge in favour of you in that situation. We would say, no, |
1:26.2 | I can't end your life just because I want to. And that's not to say that you're more valuable |
1:31.9 | or you're more important or that we're unequal. It's to say that we are equal as human beings, |
1:37.4 | but that the right to life is a more fundamental and basic right than my right to choice. |
1:44.4 | You are listening to Premier Unbelieveable, the show with the tagline Faith Explored that aims |
1:49.9 | to get you thinking. I'm Ruth Jackson and today on Unbelieveable, we are focusing on the abortion |
1:55.8 | debate. Our discussion centers around the rights of the unborn child, the rights of women, pro |
2:02.0 | life, pro choice when does life begin. Unbelieveable aims to get Christians and non-Christians thinking |
2:08.5 | about a variety of questions and these complex ethical issues are no exception. Today Roger |
2:15.0 | Bolton, veteran BBC broadcaster, is joined by writer and reproductive rights of women advocate |
2:21.3 | and for AD. And is discussing this topic with Dr Callum Miller. Callum is an NHS medical |
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