Three responses to recent abortion votes: The fragility and urgency of life
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
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According to NPR, "in every state where voters were asked to weigh in directly on abortion rights, they supported measures that protect those rights and rejected initiatives that could threaten them." Voters in several states approved measures to enshrine abortion rights in their states' constitutions. In a post-Roe world, abortion will be legislated on a state-by-state and community-by-community basis. If the majority of your community is for elective abortion, they will elect pro-abortion leaders who enact pro-abortion legislation. Consequently, protecting the most fragile of our fellow humans becomes your job and mine.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator. Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, November the 15th, 2022. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. We read in Psalm 139. 14. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. My wife and I tested positive for COVID-19 a few |
| 0:26.3 | days ago. While more than 97 million Americans have contracted the virus since the pandemic began, |
| 0:32.6 | this was our first time. We are both vaccinated and boosted and are under our doctor's care so we're experiencing |
| 0:39.2 | mild symptoms. They could be far worse. Nearly 28,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with a disease, |
| 0:47.1 | which is causing more than 300 deaths a day. Our experience with the pandemic has brought back |
| 0:52.8 | terrible memories of the days before vaccines |
| 0:55.5 | when it seemed that anyone could infect anyone and anyone could die as a result. |
| 1:01.2 | Things are much different now, but humanity's overall mortality rate is unchanged. |
| 1:06.9 | Every one of us will die of something someday unless the Lord returns first. |
| 1:12.8 | From Sunday's multiple fatalities at the University of Virginia and the University of Idaho |
| 1:18.0 | to last Saturday's deadly mid-air collision at a Dallas air show to comedian Jay Leno's burn |
| 1:25.5 | injuries following a gasoline fire, each day's news is filled with |
| 1:30.3 | reminders that life is finite and fragile. |
| 1:34.2 | And as with most gifts, the more fragile life becomes, the more precious it seems. |
| 1:39.9 | Unless, that is, we're discussing the most fragile lives of all. |
| 1:44.5 | Most commentators discussing the midterm elections are focused on control of Congress, |
| 1:48.8 | with more than a dozen house seats still uncalled as of last night. |
| 1:53.1 | I have been watching a different storyline, one that reveals something deeply urgent about the state of our culture. |
| 2:00.1 | According to NPR, and I quote, |
| 2:02.6 | in every state where voters were asked to weigh in directly on abortion rights, they supported |
| 2:08.8 | measures that protected those rights and rejected initiatives that could threaten them. |
| 2:14.6 | End quote. Voters in several states approved measures to enshrine abortion rights in their state |
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