{"id":36910,"date":"2013-01-22T22:26:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T22:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/albert_mohler-forty_years_after_roe_human_dignity_hangs_in_the_balance\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T22:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T22:26:25","slug":"albert_mohler-forty_years_after_roe_human_dignity_hangs_in_the_balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36910","title":{"rendered":"Albert Mohler&#8211;Forty Years After Roe, Human Dignity Hangs in the Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who thought that the decision of the Supreme Court would settle the issue had reason for that hope. On other controversial questions, the court\u2019s rulings had produced initial furor and outrage, but the nation rather quickly accommodated itself to those decisions. Take integration in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Not so with abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Professor Lawrence H. Tribe of the Harvard Law School, an ardent defender of abortion rights, recognized that the abortion question presents nothing less than a \u201cclash of absolutes.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Tribe attempted to propose a means of avoiding \u201cpitting these absolutes against one another.\u201d\u009d All such efforts have failed, precisely because the competing claims are indeed absolutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2013\/01\/18\/forty-years-after-roe-human-dignity-hangs-in-the-balance\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who thought that the decision of the Supreme Court would settle the issue had reason for that hope. On other controversial questions, the court\u2019s rulings had produced initial furor and outrage, but the nation rather quickly accommodated itself to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36910\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,168,114,96,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}