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ARTICLE ON ABORTION FOR THE "IRANIAN TIMES"
MARK DANKOF
The article on abortion in The Iranian Times dovetails nicely with the orthodox Christian tradition on the subject of unborn life in the latter's understanding of the implications of passages like Jeremiah, chapter 1 and Psalm 139.
Dr. Harold O. J. Brown's (Ph. D., Harvard) treatise entitled Death Before Birth, does an excellent job of underscoring the moral and Constitutional flaws in the infamous Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, as it underscores the slippery slope from abortion-on-demand to the eventual acceptability of euthanizing the developmentally handicapped and the aged for the sake of mere personal and societal convenience. In each case, the philosophy of utilitarianism has replaced a reverent, theistic understanding of God and the sacredness of human life created in His image. With Roe, the United States Supreme Court jettisoned the theism undergirding most of America's Founding Fathers and British Common Law in favor of this post-Enlightenment utilitarianism, paving the way for an American pursuit of the same ideological direction that directly led to the tragedy of the triumph of Hitler's National Socialism in the Nazi Germany of the 1930s.
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