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ABORTION RITES - Jesus is Savior

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lack of moral or spiritual justification for the procedure seemed toguarantee an eventual pro­life victory. Because abortion was nothingmore than an allowable evil, as science continued to prove thehumanity of unborn babies and social conscience grew, it wasdestined to go the way of Hitler’s death camps. Abortion would end,just as Auschwitz ended. The culture of death would come crashingdown, just as the Berlin wall did. With the arrival of femin<strong>is</strong>tspirituality, however, abortion supporters found the spiritualjustification their movement lacked. By addressing what spiritualfemin<strong>is</strong>ts call the inherent “spiritual cr<strong>is</strong><strong>is</strong>” 12 in abortion and offeringpseudo atonement, femin<strong>is</strong>t spirituality filled abortion’s moral voidand reframed the abortion debate.The pro­life movement bases its arguments on a linear viewof life. Th<strong>is</strong> view rightly recognizes life as having a beginning and an12Ginette Par<strong>is</strong>, The Sacrament of Abortion, trans. Joanna Mott (Dallas:Spring Publications, 1992), 57.186

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