The Catholic Church tries to be consistent across a broad range of life and social justice activities – in theory. As often as not though, it’s Evangelicals who do the better job of spelling out a "consistent ethic of life".
Here’s an article in Christianity Today weaving together respect for prenatal life, and a proper understanding of our ultimate destiny.
Go Gently into That Good Night | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
Perhaps our culture clings so tenaciously to the hope of extended youthfulness and lasting life because we have shoved death from view. "All the things that once prepared us for death—regular experience with illness and death, public grief and mourning, a culture and philosophy of death, interaction with the elderly, as well as the visibility of our own aging—are virtually gone from our lives," writes Virginia Morris in Talking About Death. "Instead, we are tempted daily by that perfect apple, by promises of youth and immortality."
The apple that’s currently tempting our society is the half-million frozen human embryos created in fertility clinics. Our culture so clings to life that it is prepared to legislate taking of life at its earliest stages in order to graft it on at the end.
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