{"id":19616,"date":"2014-01-23T09:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=19616"},"modified":"2014-01-23T09:23:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:23:06","slug":"brit-hume-the-moral-case-for-abortion-on-demand-grows-ever-weaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2014\/01\/brit-hume-the-moral-case-for-abortion-on-demand-grows-ever-weaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit Hume: The Moral Case for Abortion on Demand Grows Ever Weaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2014\/01\/babies.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19620\" title=\"babies\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2014\/01\/babies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"281\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moral case for allowing such beings to be killed grows ever weaker, and its advocates resort to ever more absurd euphemisms to describe what they support.\u201d Brit Hume<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/UwLOUBK5HOQ\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/UwLOUBK5HOQ<\/a>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe moral case for allowing such beings to be killed grows ever weaker, and its advocates resort to ever more absurd euphemisms to describe what they support.\u201d Brit Hume<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,538,48,1],"tags":[18,5964,5962,2308,5963,555],"class_list":["post-19616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-health-care","category-pro-life","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-abortion-on-demand","tag-brit-hume","tag-march-for-life","tag-moral-case-for-abortion","tag-roe-vs-wade"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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