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14 Oct 08

Legal or Not, Abortion Rates Compare - New York Times

A worldwide study by the World Heath Organization finds that the criminalization of abortion does not reduce the incidence, but the availability of contraception does.

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The data also suggested that the best way to reduce abortion rates was not to make abortion illegal but to make contraception more widely available
In Eastern Europe, where contraceptive choices have broadened since the fall of Communism, the study found that abortion rates have decreased by 50 percent, although they are still relatively high compared with those in Western Europe.
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- In Uganda, where abortion is illegal and sex education programs focus only on abstinence, the estimated abortion rate was 54 per 1,000 women in 2003, more than twice the rate in the United States, 21 per 1,000 in that year. The lowest rate, 12 per 1,000, was in Western Europe, with legal abortion and widely available contraception.
- The Bush administration’s multibillion-dollar campaign against H.I.V./AIDS in Africa has directed money to programs that promote abstinence before marriage, and to condoms only as a last resort. It has prohibited the use of American money to support overseas family planning groups that provide abortions or promote abortion as a method of family planning.

06 Sep 08

ABORTION, THEOLOGICALLY UNDERSTOOD

Article from 1990. Hauerwas shares a sermon on abortion then offers ethical commentary.

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We cannot simply throw the issue of abortion in the faces of women and say, 'You
decide and you bear the consequences of your decision.' As the church, our response to the
abortion issue must be to shoulder the responsibility to care for women and children. We
cannot do otherwise and still be the church.
Christians in America are tempted to think of issues like abortion primarily in legal
terms such as "rights." This is because the legal mode, as de Tocqueville
pointed out long ago, provides the constituting morality in liberal societies. In other
words, when you live in a liberal society like ours, the fundamental problem is how you
can achieve cooperative agreements between individuals who share nothing in common other
than their fear of death. In liberal society the law has the function of securing such
agreements. That is the reason why lawyers are to America what priests were to the
medieval world. The law is our way of negotiating safe agreements between autonomous
individuals who have nothing else in common other than their fear of death and their
mutual desire for protection.
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  Christians do not believe that we have inalienable rights. That is the false presumption
  of Enlightenment individualism, and it opposes everything that Christians believe about
  what it means to be a creature.
- We do not believe that we have a right to our bodies because when
  we are baptized we become members of one another; then we can tell one another what it is
  that we should, and should not, do with our bodies.
- Here is the way it works: you can only act in the world that you
  can see, and you must be taught to see by learning to say.
- One of the crucial issues here is how we learn to be a people dependent on one another.
  We must learn to confess that, as a hospitable people, we need one another because we are
  dependent on one another. The last thing that the church wants is a bunch of autonomous,
  free individuals. We want people who know how to express authentic need, because that
  creates community.
- We, as church, are ready to be challenged by the other. This has to do with the fact
  that in the church, every adult, whether single or married, is called to be
  parent. All Christian adults have a parental responsibility because of baptism. Biology
  does not make parents in the church. Baptism does. Baptism makes all adult Christians
  parents and gives them the obligation to help introduce these children to the Gospel.
  Listen to the baptismal vows; in them the whole church promises to be parent. In this
  regard the church reinvents the family.
- I often remind my right-to-life friends that Christians took their
  children with them to martyrdom rather than have them raised pagan. Christians believe
  there is much worth dying for. We do not believe that human life is an absolute good in
  and of itself. Of course our desire to protect human life is part of our seeing each human
  being as God's creature. But that does not mean that we believe that life is an overriding
  good.
  
  To say that life is an overriding good is to underwrite the modern sentimentality that
  there is absolutely nothing in this world worth dying for. Christians know that
  Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been
  about. Listen to the Gospel! I know that today we use the church primarily as a means of
  safety, but life in the church actually involves extended training in learning to die
  early.
- Honestly, I cannot imagine anything worse than
  people saying that they have children because their hope for the future is in their
  children. You would never have children if you had them for that reason. We are able to
  have children because our hope is in God, who makes it possible to do the absurd thing of
  having children. In a world of such terrible injustice, in a world of such terrible
  misery, in a world that may well be about the killing of our children, having children is
  an extraordinary act of faith and hope. But as Christians we can have a hope in God that
  urges us to welcome children.
- Even Christians now think that we ought to marry people simply because
  they are "in love." Wrong, wrong, wrong! What could being in love possibly mean?
  The romantic view underwrites the presumption that, because people are in love, it is
  therefore legitimate for them to have sexual intercourse, whether they are married or not.
  Contrary to this is the church's view of marriage. To the church, marriage is the public
  declaration that two people have pledged to live together faithfully for a lifetime.
- Christians witness to wider society first of all not by
  lobbying for a law against abortion, but by welcoming the children that the wider society
  does not want. Part of that witness might be to say to our pro-choice friends, "You
  are absolutely right. I don't think that any poor woman ought to be forced to have a child
  that she cannot afford. So let's work hard for an adequate child allowance in this
  country." That may not be entirely satisfactory, but that is one approach.

04 Sep 08

New Study on Abortion Reduction (by Mary Nelson)

A new study commissioned by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good concludes that government social spending and economic conditions do more to reduce abortions than legal strategies such as parental consent laws.

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30 Aug 08

Biblical Perspectives on Idolatry, Poverty, Abortion (by Jim Wallis)

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The Bulletin - Philadelphia's Family Newspaper - Catholics For Obama: Poverty As Important As Abortion

"In our experience, there is a tendency of some Catholics to turn presidential elections into a single issue referendum on abortion," the group said on its Web site. "Indeed, abortion is a grave moral issue of monumental importance, but we believe it cann

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