{"id":19802,"date":"2014-09-16T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T09:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=19802"},"modified":"2014-09-15T20:54:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:54:49","slug":"bonhoeffer-on-abortion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2014\/09\/bonhoeffer-on-abortion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonhoeffer on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Matthew Schmitz quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer\u2019s Ethics<\/a>, emphasizing how the theologian is forcefully pro-life, while also speaking pastorally about those who commit this sin.<\/p>\n

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Destruction of the embryo in the mother\u2019s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And this is nothing but murder.<\/p>\n

A great many different motives may lead to an action of this kind; indeed in cases where it is an act of despair, performed in circumstances of extreme human or economic destitution and misery, the guilt may often lie rather with the community than with the individual. Precisely in this connection money may conceal many a wanton deed, while the poor man\u2019s more reluctant lapse may far more easily be disclosed.<\/p>\n

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All these considerations must no doubt have a quite decisive influence on our personal and pastoral attitude towards the person concerned, but they cannot in any way alter the fact of murder.<\/p>\n

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via How To Talk About Abortion | Matthew Schmitz | First Things<\/a>.<\/p>\n