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Abortion

23 Episodes

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, but in these discussions the harder question is not the procedure itself so much as when a fetus counts as a person and whether biblical or Christian traditions ever speak with one voice about that threshold. The episodes gathered here repeatedly frame abortion as a debate shaped by changing ideas about personhood, scriptural interpretation, and political identity rather than by a single clear biblical rule.

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“I'm saying that the Bible absolutely nowhere actually addresses the practice of abortion.”

Dan McClellan Episode 23

“The debates have focused overwhelmingly on is it a person. Personhood is something that is distinct from a member of the species Homo sapiens.”

Dan McClellan Episode 23

“Do not abort a fetus or kill a child that is born.”

Dan McClellan Episode 110

“At least in the case of abortion, this is of recent historical origin, right?”

Dan McClellan Episode 124

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