{"id":224,"date":"2008-09-11T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2008\/09\/the-common-good-p4.html"},"modified":"2008-09-11T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T02:00:00","slug":"the-common-good-p4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/09\/the-common-good-p4.html","title":{"rendered":"The Common Good (p4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;font-family: Georgia\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Which country is pro-life? &#160;<\/span><\/span>In the Netherlands and Germany abortion is legal. &#160;In Brazil abortion is strictly prohibited. &#160;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>If we look at the laws of these countries the answer seems obvious. &#160;But when we look at the actual number of abortions we have to wonder. &#160;Even though abortion is illegal in Brazil &quot;an astounding forty of every thousand pregnancies end in abortion. &#160;The current rate of U.S. abortions is about half that of Brazil.&quot; &#160;Some of the lowest abortion rates are found in Germany and the Netherlands.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Korzen and Kelley say that we have to ask &quot;Why?&quot; before we vote. &#160;If we think that making abortion illegal will actually reduce the number of abortions than what will we do when Roe vs. Wade is overturned and we don&#039;t see the desired results? &#160;While they agree that abortion is one of the greatest threats to human life they say we should examine the methods we are pursuing to reach our goals. &#160;Specifically, they point out that poverty is really the root of all problems. &#160;The abortion rate is highest among the poor and in the poorest countries. &#160;So if we vote for and work to improve life for the poor then we will see our goal when it comes to abortion realized.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>What do you think of their line of reasoning?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which country is pro-life? &#160;In the Netherlands and Germany abortion is legal. &#160;In Brazil abortion is strictly prohibited. &#160; If we look at the laws of these countries the answer seems obvious. &#160;But when we look at the actual number of abortions we have to wonder. &#160;Even though abortion is illegal in Brazil &quot;an astounding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Common Good (p4) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/09\/the-common-good-p4.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Common Good (p4) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Which country is pro-life? 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