UFL member, O. Carter Snead (Notre Dame), has a terrific new article on the Public Discourse blog, Protect the Weak and Vulnerable: The Primacy of the Life Issue. In the article, he first establishes that the debates over abortion and embryo destructive research are really about membership in the human family and the reach of the American promise of “liberty and justice for all.” He compares the records of Presidents George W. Bush and Barak H. Obama on the protection of the unborn and identifies actions the next president can take to advance legal protection for all Americans, including the tiniest and most vulnerable of us.
No doubt after reading this essay some will still disagree with those of us who believe that the life issue is the single most important political issue of our day, but it won’t be for lack of a clear explanation of our position.