Foundations newsletter

August 11, 2022

Foundations is a semi-monthly online publication of Personhood Alliance Education that informs and equips Christians on issues of life for the 21st century.

Personhood in the news

Canada's 10,000 euthanasia deaths in 2021

Canada's third annual MAiD report was barely talked about in the media, but the figures were startling. In 2021, there were 10,064 MAiD deaths, representing 3.3% of all deaths in Canada; an increase of 32.4% over 2020. Total MAiD deaths since legalized euthanasia in 2016 was 31,664. Heartbreakingly, nearly one in five died because they were lonely. In 35.7% of cases, patients believed that they were a "burden on family, friends, or caregivers."

Dobbs: Should the right to life be political?

In the wake of Dobbs, how should we view a constitutional decision that is decidedly neutral on the personhood and right to life of the pre-born child? Should we be satisfied with a Supreme Court standard that allows the fundamental right to life to be determined by the mother’s state of residence? How can a nation survive united when fundamental moral questions depend upon which side of a state border one finds themselves?

The house legalized abortion built

Legalized abortion normalized promiscuity, promoted fatherlessness, and secured a view of children so bereft of humanity that we won't even call them children anymore. It put more pressure on women to have sex without commitment and less pressure on men to commit. This is the house abortion built. It led us to see children as things—even burdens—instead of image bearers of God. But lies never have the power to change God's design.

Personhood on the ground

The Family and Personhood

Just like an object of art—composed of color, line, texture, shape, and form—humans are designed with elements that are essential to our nature. And each of these elements is under God’s authority—life, marriage, sexuality, and gender. We find His perfect design in Genesis 1:27-28, also known as the Doctrine of Imago Dei (which is Latin for image of God).

What we are witnessing everywhere today is a direct attack on these design elements and their central structure: The family. Any attempt to separate, twist, or alter any of these design elements is an attempt to usurp God’s authority. This is nothing less than intentional corruption of the very nature of God’s wholistic design for the human person; the stripping away of meaning, function, and purpose.

The chaos and brokenness in our culture today is not because God’s design is flawed, but because we are actively rebelling against it.

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LIFE IS SACRED

An example of the traditional magisterial teaching which indicates that it is never morally licit to intentionally kill a child through abortion in order to “save the life of its mother” comes from the teaching of Pope Pius XII:

“Every human being, even the infant in the mother's womb, has the right to life immediately from God, not from the parent or any human society or authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral ‘indication’ that can show or give valid juridical title for direct deliberate disposition concerning an innocent human life-which is to say, a disposition that aims at its destruction either as an end in itself or as the means of attaining another end that is perhaps in no way illicit itself. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a most noble end, but the direct killing of the child as a means to this end is not licit.”