{"id":9579,"date":"2014-04-08T14:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:13:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:13:23","slug":"abortion-is-a-categorical-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/abortion-is-a-categorical-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion is a Categorical Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9580\" alt=\"Abortion is a Categorical Evil \" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Abortion-is-Evil_01_275px.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"184\" hspace=\"5\" \/> by George Michalopulos &#8211;<br \/>\nthe mutilation of an innocent baby in its mother\u2019s womb is an unarguable evil. Global warming, income inequality, and even capital punishment are arguable.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know whether global warming is an actual fact, a hoax, or something in-between. \u201cIncome inequality\u201d? Why is the fact that Tom Brady makes more money throwing a football than a hamburger-flipper at McDonald\u2019s unfair? It may be but it may not be. In other words, it\u2019s arguable.<\/p>\n<p>Capital punishment? Unfortunate, but a savage murderer is not on the same moral plane as an innocent child. Again, it\u2019s arguable.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is a categorical evil for which there is no moral amelioration. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Post from the Comments section on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monomakhos.com\/i-guess-bill-maher-didnt-get-the-memo-either\/#comment-73981\" target=\"_blank\">Monomakhos.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by George Michalopulos &#8211; the mutilation of an innocent baby in its mother\u2019s womb is an unarguable evil. Global warming, income inequality, and even capital punishment are arguable. We don\u2019t know whether global warming is an actual fact, a hoax, or something in-between. \u201cIncome inequality\u201d? Why is the fact that Tom Brady makes more money &#8230; <a title=\"Abortion is a Categorical Evil\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/abortion-is-a-categorical-evil\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Abortion is a Categorical Evil\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-abortion","category-moral-issues","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}