Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today’s Most Controversial Issue
Overview
Abortion remains a crucial issue in American politics. Three Approaches to Abortion cuts through the rhetoric of today’s politicians. Peter Kreeft argues that it is illogical to support abortion rights while claiming to be personally opposed to abortion. Set up as a dialogue between two people on opposing sides of the issue, Kreeft’s commonsense approach, lucid arguments, and easy-to-grasp illustrations, make this book an invaluable in understanding abortion in 21st-century culture.
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- Cuts through the rhetoric of today’s politicians
- Presents a dialogue between two people on opposing sides of the issue
- Argues that one cannot support abortion rights while claiming to be personally opposed to abortion
- The Apple Argument against Abortion
- Why We Fight: A Pro-Life Motivational Map
- What Happens When an Irresistible Force Meets an Immovable Object? A Typical Pro-Life/Pro-Choice Dialogue
Top Highlights
“In fact, I think the most basic principle of all morality is what I call the Three-R Principle: Right Response to Reality.” (Page 21)
“Mother Teresa was exactly on target (as usual) when she said, ‘If abortion isn’t wrong, then nothing is wrong.’” (Page 11)
“In an age when rebellion is the new orthodoxy, the old orthodoxy is the only remaining rebellion. Descartes noted that ‘there is no idea so absurd that it has not been seriously taught by some philosopher.’” (Page 15)
“Peter Singer argues for a thirty-day waiting period during which parents can decide they do not want to keep, but want to destroy, the ‘product’ they brought home from the hospital.” (Page 33)
“rights depend on reality, that what is right depends on what is.” (Page 19)
What is left to be said about the abortion debate? First of all, that is it usually not much of a debate. Peter Kreeft points the way to taking deepest disagreements seriously in creating and sustaining honest debate.
—Richard J. Neuhaus, editor, First Things
- Title: Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today’s Most Controversial Issue
- Author: Peter Kreeft
- Publisher: Ignatius
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 134
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Abortion; Pro-life movement; Abortion › Moral and ethical aspects
- ISBNs: 9780898709155, 0898709156
- Resource ID: LLS:THRPPRCHSBRTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:01:45Z