Discussions have recently taken place in the UK Parliament around various aspects of the Criminal Justice Bill, including the potential decriminalisation of abortion. Erik Strandness, who has over 20 years’ experience in neonatal medicine, reflects on the thorny issue of abortion
Abortion is a controversial topic which engenders fierce emotional responses from both the pro-choice and pro-life camps. Returning to first principles held by both the scientific and religious communities physician and Christian apologist Erik Strandness seeks to clarify the real source of all the anguish.
Conceiving the problem
Ever since life began, fecundity has been an inherently good thing, and whether it was the two becoming one or the evolutionary passing on of beneficial mutations - fertility matters. Without procreation, God plays to an empty house and natural selection is out of a job. It appears then that both religious and irreligious alike believe that bearing offspring is a foundationally beneficial thing. What happened? God’s vision for… (Register to read the rest of the article)
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