I do a short weekly podcast with Father Chris Metropulos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, posted on the Orthodox Christian Network (a great source for all kinds of Orthodox Christian commentary). Here's the latest, in which we talk about abortion in America, and "man-children."
And here's the latest OCN podcast with Frederica Mathewes-Green, in which Fr. Chris talks with the noted Orthodox author, pro-life activist and They Might Be Giants fanatic about abortion in America.
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Friday January 25, 2008
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Razib at Gene Expression blogs about Rod and Reza Aslan's disagreement on bloggingsheads.tv.
Casey:
No. And I'm not sure where you would have gotten that from.
Larry, I come from a dysfunctional background. What I chose was not to be dysfunctional, and to have children.
It's one thing to say, I can't overcome the dysfunction, so I'm not going to have (conceive) children. That's maybe defeatist, maybe realistic, but it's responsible. But if you have conceived a child/embryo/fetus and you can't overcome the dysfunction, why not place the child for adoption? That's responsible, and it's responsible to the child, which abortion never will be.
Lisa:
I never said in any of the above that I would countenance an abortion of an unexpected pregnancy, if at all possible not to countenance one. Obviously, as Fr. Chris, Rod and Frederica made abundantly clear, under current law and culture a woman could choose to have an abortion on her own.
I'm not talking about abortion per se. I'm talking about the theology and the politics BEHIND the issue -- and the presumption that having a married, nuclear family is the ONLY authentic path in life -- and how all this interacts, which is really what Rod and Frederica were speaking of as well, to give them credit.
Even Frederica admitted that, strictly from a political point of view, being pro-choice is very tempting (albeit a position she rejected in her own life for moral/religious reasons).
We told our son from about 5 years old on that a daddy has to take care of his children. As he grew, the message morphed to "if you get a girl pregnant and she wants to keep the baby, your dreams take a back seat to the needs of your child."
I don't recall being told about such things as a child, but it was made necessary for us by the culture. Our boy was in school with a gazillion peers whose dads were MIA and we didn't want him to think for one minute that it was an acceptable thing for a man to do.
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