{"id":4617,"date":"2006-09-01T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/09\/01\/choosing-life\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T14:51:24","slug":"choosing-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/09\/choosing-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred Barnes has a piece<\/a> on how do people become pro-lifers and lists the stories of Henry Hyde, Ramesh Ponnuru, Wesley Smith, and himself. [Via Kevin Miller<\/a>]<\/p>\n

I once wrote an essay in High School defending abortion. This was just a couple of years after Roe v. Wade. My pro-choice views though died when I became a father. The idea that a baby was not yet a human being became repugnant to me during my wife’s pregnancy. Though until reading the Gospel of Life that I came upon in a library I had been only partly pro-life in that I held to the rape and incest exceptions. The great thing about being Catholic is that you become fully pro-life when you understand the totality of Church teaching. From contraception, to abortion, euthanasia, IVF, ESCR, ect the Church has a consistent life ethic that fully understands the human person without the hypocrisy inherit in other understanding of people who consider themselves pro-life and especially those that are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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