{"id":8113,"date":"2004-01-21T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T08:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/roe_v_wade.html"},"modified":"2004-01-21T08:08:06","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T08:08:06","slug":"roe_v_wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/roe_v_wade.html","title":{"rendered":"Roe v. Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a moral philosophical viewpoint. <\/a> The reader who sent the link remarks:<\/p>\n

It does argue that the “natural law”
\nargument against abortion is in fact a religious argument, not a
\nsecular argument — a distinction that makes more difficult to justify,
\nfor example, the attempt by Bishop Burke to effectively excommunicate
\nCatholic public officials for refusing to support the bishops’ effort
\nto prohibit abortion.<\/p>\n

From my work many years ago with those from other denominations, I
\nknow many individuals of good faith who see any push for antiabortion
\nlegislation as an effort to impose a specifically Catholic moral
\nteaching into a society that is supposed not to favor one religious
\nview over another. They see the invocation of natural law — that any
\nmoral person can see that abortion is The Very Worst Thing without
\nrecourse to a specific religious perspective — as itself a religious
\nperspective, and disingenuous to boot. They thus see no place for such
\na view in public policymaking, just as they see no place for, as an
\nexample of something that the bishops would probably oppose, the calls
\nfor school prayer from the Protestant Christian right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a moral philosophical viewpoint. The reader who sent the link remarks: It does argue that the “natural law” argument against abortion is in fact a religious argument, not a secular argument — a distinction that makes more difficult to justify, for example, the attempt by Bishop Burke to effectively excommunicate Catholic public officials for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nRoe v. 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