Friday, May 4, 2012

A University Professor’s Response to Sanctity of Life and Disability

Lausanne Global Conversation:  A response to Joni Eareckson Tada’s "Sanctity of Life and Disability."

Tyranny consists in the universal desire to dominate beyond one’s own station. . . . Our freedom becomes tyrannical when it is removed from the Christian tradition, for it is the tradition which gave us our freedom in the first place. We have no notion of freedom apart from this tradition. We can’t pick and choose at will because it is not our place to do so. For when we do, we become tyrants, picking and choosing who may live and who must die!

There is nothing wrong with the desire to have a child. . .  The problem is the message it sends about persons affected by disability. They are better not to exist at all. Nothing subverts a pro-life ethic more than such a pursuit.

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