Interesting that even conservative homeschoolers realize this guy is a wacko and are rejecting his BS:
Christian Leader Rejects Abortion to Save a Woman's Life 08-06-08
A proponent of "biblical patriarchy" is drawing fire among conservative religious homeschoolers for his view that abortion is never morally justifiable, even to save the life of the mother.
One recent blog urged fellow homeschoolers to stop linking to Doug Phillips' Vision Forum Web site and refrain from buying his curriculum, saying his opposition to terminating ectopic pregnancy, also called tubal pregnancy, poses a danger to women. When a fertilized egg attaches outside the womb, usually to a fallopian tube, is the classic case used by people who oppose abortion except in circumstances where doctors say a pregnancy threatens a woman's life.
Phillips says that argument reflects scare tactics from pro-choice groups like Planned Parenthood instead of a biblical world view. In 2003 Phillips wrote an article comparing the "life of the mother" argument with convicted murderer Paul Hill's flawed justification of killing a doctor who performed abortions in order to save unborn lives. Both arguments, he said, "are terribly guilty of borrowing from pragmatic, non-biblical arguments, and twisting the Scriptures to justify a desired result."
"First, a baby is not a willful aggressor," Phillips wrote. "This ends the debate on justifiable homicide. A baby neither intends the harm, nor acts aggressively against its mother.
(In fact, if 'blame' is to be passed, it should rest on the mother, not the baby, since it was the mother's body which produced the circumstances in which the baby has found himself.) The Bible makes no provision for executing an innocent party (one which lacks intent to harm) in order to help another.
"Second, while the unborn baby in the case of an ectopic pregnancy may pose a threat which could materialize into a harm to the mother, the threat is not imminent in the classic sense, nor is it conclusive that the baby's presence necessarily will cause harm. All that is known is that it might cause harm. Consequently, the murder of the baby takes place in anticipation of a statistical possibility. Here again, the biblical requirements for justifiable homicide are not met."
In another article Phillips described a woman who would abort to save her own life with an analogy about a mother in a lifeboat with food and water enough for only one throwing her child overboard. Complete article hereI bet he'd change his tune quick if it were men's lives at stake.
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