The Birth of Anti-abortionism as a Religious Issue in America - Professor Alec Ryrie

In 1973, with a Supreme Court decision abortion was legalised throughout the United States. As the meaning of that decision sunk in, Christians of all political persuasions discovered in themselves an apparently intuitive moral revulsion at it, despite the lack of direct Biblical guidance on the issue.

This is an extract from the full-length lecture by Professor Alec Ryrie, “What Would Jesus Do? Christian Culture Wars in the Modern West”: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/what-would-jesus-do-christian-culture-wars-in-the-modern-west

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