The Problem with Positive Rights
Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast
Greg Koukl
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to see. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hello friends Greg Kockel here the host of this show called Stand to Reason, and again I welcome you to our broadcast. |
| 0:39.0 | Still is a broadcast too. We do the internet thing and that's actually our biggest footprint so to speak but we still |
| 0:45.7 | broadcast the show through the American Family Radio Network and glad to continue to be part of that group. I have in front of me a letter from a state |
| 0:58.6 | representative in the state of Oregon and he somebody I've met and spent some time with and talked to him about you know |
| 1:07.6 | The problems of governing in a very liberal environment, okay? |
| 1:13.0 | And he's offering a reflection here at a question that I want to speak to |
| 1:18.0 | to try to bring some clarity on an issue that we need to be more clear on. And that has to do with rights. |
| 1:27.0 | And his observation is that more and more, especially this election cycle, the issue of abortion is going to be a really big deal, not just in state elections, but in national elections. |
| 1:40.0 | Now, of course, since the Roe v. Wade decision recently that nullified Roe v. Wade as a |
| 1:48.2 | force, a constitutional force, basically it did not make abortion illegal. |
| 1:53.9 | It just clarified that the Constitution does not |
| 1:59.1 | provide a harbor, safe harbor for abortion as a constitutional right. |
| 2:06.0 | Okay, now it's left to the states to this, to decide. |
| 2:09.0 | I wish it would go further because I think there's more to be done here, |
| 2:12.0 | but this is a move in the right direction. |
| 2:14.2 | Of course, what this has done is radically inflamed the pro-abortion activist and those people who believe that one ought to have a right to kill their |
| 2:26.5 | unborn child. And now I'm choosing my words carefully here advisedly and I'm not simply trying to make a rhetorical flourish. |
| 2:38.0 | The only thing that might be inaccurate or imprecise is the word child, which is the word that is often used to |
| 2:46.1 | characterize maybe an infant to a two-year-old or a three-year-old or a four-year-old and is |
| 2:52.3 | not usually or not necessarily applied to those who are |
| 2:56.8 | unborn so I could just amend it to say an unborn human being the right to kill your unborn offspring, human offspring because all of those are true. |
| 3:10.3 | It is a mother's offspring. That's what grows in her womb. No duh and what's growing in her womb is a human being also no duh. There's no religion involved there. All that is is science at this point. |
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