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Reasonable Faith Podcast

The New Abortion Challenge

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Despite the overturning of Roe v Wade, the New York Times says the future of abortion is taking a new turn.

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0:00.0

Bill, people know from listening to you that you have a real heart in this issue, the

0:14.7

issue of the unborn, the issue of abortion, and you comment from time to time, this is

0:21.6

a New York Times article from earlier this month, and it throws a bucket of cold water

0:27.6

on the celebrations surrounding the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

0:31.2

In other words, it's not time for pro-life people to relax.

0:35.7

The future of abortion, both the practice itself and the legal fight over it, will increasingly

0:42.3

revolve around prescription drugs that women can take at home or their doctor's office

0:48.5

to end their pregnancies.

0:51.0

The Food and Drug Administration approved Mifrapris Stone in the year 2000.

0:56.4

It has been used to terminate more than 5 million pregnancies, and it's going to be

1:02.0

difficult to regulate and legislate as we'll see in this piece.

1:06.0

Apparently, the future of abortion will not be in clinics, but in the drug store.

1:10.6

Yeah, I think that pro-life people were well aware that this was coming, Kevin, when Mifrapris

1:16.7

Stone was approved so many years ago, because now the so-called morning after pill can be

1:24.6

taken after sexual intercourse, and you can cause a miscarriage without any difficulty of

1:34.1

going to a clinic and having a surgical abortion.

1:38.8

And before we get into the weeds talking about this, I just want to emphasize to our listeners,

1:44.8

once again, that the ethical issue raised by abortion is the intrinsic moral value of

1:53.5

human life.

1:54.5

There are two questions here that need to be answered.

1:58.2

Is the developing fetus, a human being, and do human beings have intrinsic moral value?

2:06.3

And it seems to me that the answer to both of those questions is fairly clearly yes.

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