Donate $15, $30, $50, or more to help us reach a wider audience with the Consistent Life Ethic this Summer!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nOne of my favorite prolife placards was from Atheists for Life: \u201cFor the Embryology Textbook Tells Me So\u201d. \u00a0Prolife people have science on their side in this argument. \u00a0\u201cIs there a human genome? \u00a0Is it alive and developing toward adulthood?\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s pro-abortion arguments that get bogged down in mystical mumbo-jumbo about ensoulment and fine parsing of biblical and medieval speculations about the 40th day and all. \u00a0Thomas did the best he could with the science of the 13th century. \u00a0But we know rather more now. \u00a0Nancy Pelosi just embarrasses herself when she drags Thomas and Augustine kicking and screaming to support a position they on no way, shape, or form ever would have supported, all while appealing to a scientific model of reproduction that went out with the four humors, geocentrism, and the theory of homunculi.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Help Life Matters Journal\u00a0work with all people of good will to promote a Consistent Ethic of Life! Life Matters Journal is making waves in Summer Rosemary went to the largest gathering of atheist\/non-religious people in the US at Reason Rally 2016 and brought a pro-life witness to her fellow atheists. Then all three of us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-95990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-works-of-mercy"],"yoast_head":"\n
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