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	<title>Comments on: National Post columnist repeats blunder about abortion</title>
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		<title>By: Scott Gilbreath</title>
		<link>http://www.novascotiascott.com/2009/01/01/national-post-columnist-repeats-blunder-about-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-726</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott Gilbreath</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I’ll get to St Jerome in a moment but, even without him, the statement in my previous comment stands:

&lt;blockquote&gt;The authorities I cited are more than sufficient to prove you wrong.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You made a categorical claim that &quot;pro-life Christians&quot; did not view abortion as a grave sin until “circa 1968”.  It takes only a single counter-example to prove you wrong.

Now you’re claiming that a certain level of notoriety is required.  That’s the same diversion you tried to &lt;a href=&quot;http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/07/04/douglas-farrow-opposing-abortion-isn-t-a-modern-christian-fade.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;put over on Douglas Farrow last July&lt;/a&gt;.  It doesn’t carry any more logical force now that it did then.

Referring to tragic cases of consecrated Christian virgins who try to conceal the guilt of fornication, St Jerome wrote:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Some even ensure barrenness by the help of potions, murdering human beings before they are fully conceived.  Others, when they find they are with child as a result of their sin, practice abortion with drugs, and so frequently bring about their own death, taking with them to the lower world the guilt of three crimes: suicide, adultery against Christ, and child-murder.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;Source&lt;/strong&gt;: Jerome, &lt;em&gt;Ep. 22,13&lt;/em&gt;, trans. F.A. Wright, Loeb ed., p. 79, cited by Gerald Bonner, “Abortion and Early Christian Thought”, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abortion-Sanctity-Human-Life-Channer/dp/0853644179&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, ed. J.H. Channer (1985), pp.108-109.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ll get to St Jerome in a moment but, even without him, the statement in my previous comment stands:</p>
<blockquote><p>The authorities I cited are more than sufficient to prove you wrong.</p></blockquote>
<p>You made a categorical claim that &#8220;pro-life Christians&#8221; did not view abortion as a grave sin until “circa 1968”.  It takes only a single counter-example to prove you wrong.</p>
<p>Now you’re claiming that a certain level of notoriety is required.  That’s the same diversion you tried to <a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/07/04/douglas-farrow-opposing-abortion-isn-t-a-modern-christian-fade.aspx" rel="nofollow">put over on Douglas Farrow last July</a>.  It doesn’t carry any more logical force now that it did then.</p>
<p>Referring to tragic cases of consecrated Christian virgins who try to conceal the guilt of fornication, St Jerome wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Some even ensure barrenness by the help of potions, murdering human beings before they are fully conceived.  Others, when they find they are with child as a result of their sin, practice abortion with drugs, and so frequently bring about their own death, taking with them to the lower world the guilt of three crimes: suicide, adultery against Christ, and child-murder.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Source</strong>: Jerome, <em>Ep. 22,13</em>, trans. F.A. Wright, Loeb ed., p. 79, cited by Gerald Bonner, “Abortion and Early Christian Thought”, in <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abortion-Sanctity-Human-Life-Channer/dp/0853644179" rel="nofollow"><em>Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life</em></a>, ed. J.H. Channer (1985), pp.108-109.</p>
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		<title>By: Colby Cosh</title>
		<link>http://www.novascotiascott.com/2009/01/01/national-post-columnist-repeats-blunder-about-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-725</link>
		<dc:creator>Colby Cosh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They aren&#039;t, actually: St. Jerome, for example, specifically told a correspondent that &quot;seeds are gradually formed in the uterus, and it is not reputed homicide until the scattered members received their appearance.&quot; He does not belong on your list; not coincidentally, he is the most prestigious name on it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They aren&#8217;t, actually: St. Jerome, for example, specifically told a correspondent that &#8220;seeds are gradually formed in the uterus, and it is not reputed homicide until the scattered members received their appearance.&#8221; He does not belong on your list; not coincidentally, he is the most prestigious name on it.</p>
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		<title>By: Scott Gilbreath</title>
		<link>http://www.novascotiascott.com/2009/01/01/national-post-columnist-repeats-blunder-about-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-721</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott Gilbreath</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The authorities I cited are more than sufficient to prove you wrong.  Why don&#039;t you just admit it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The authorities I cited are more than sufficient to prove you wrong.  Why don&#8217;t you just admit it?</p>
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		<title>By: Colby Cosh</title>
		<link>http://www.novascotiascott.com/2009/01/01/national-post-columnist-repeats-blunder-about-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-720</link>
		<dc:creator>Colby Cosh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Honestly, you&#039;re not the least bit self-conscious about the 15-century gap in your seamless web of Church teaching that abortion is murder? Gotta say, this is an unusually comfy woodshed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Honestly, you&#8217;re not the least bit self-conscious about the 15-century gap in your seamless web of Church teaching that abortion is murder? Gotta say, this is an unusually comfy woodshed.</p>
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		<title>By: Steynian 303 &#171; Free Canuckistan!</title>
		<link>http://www.novascotiascott.com/2009/01/01/national-post-columnist-repeats-blunder-about-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-702</link>
		<dc:creator>Steynian 303 &#171; Free Canuckistan!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] A NATPOST columnist repeats blunder about abortion &#8230;. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Scott Gilbreath</title>
		<link>http://www.novascotiascott.com/2009/01/01/national-post-columnist-repeats-blunder-about-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-700</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott Gilbreath</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Done.</p>
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		<title>By: j.m.c.</title>
		<link>http://www.novascotiascott.com/2009/01/01/national-post-columnist-repeats-blunder-about-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-697</link>
		<dc:creator>j.m.c.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>why not write a letter to the editor, asking why someone who deliberately makes the same mistake twice maintains his position?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>why not write a letter to the editor, asking why someone who deliberately makes the same mistake twice maintains his position?</p>
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