Tue Aug 15, 2023 – 2:33 pm EDTTue Aug 15, 2023 – 2:48 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Jury selection for the FACE trial in Washington, D.C., has passed into the fourth day, with opening statements expected by Tuesday or early Wednesday morning. With this in mind, here are some reflections from an observer in the courtroom.
Some believe that the conviction that abortion is wrong or that life is sacred because God is its author prevents a person from judging impartially in a court case related to abortion. But is this really so? Is it the case that ideas about the justice or injustice of something that was, for most of the history of this country, held to be not only unjust but criminal now prevent a citizen of the United States from considering, in a reasonable manner, a legal charge related to abortion?
If so, it would seem that reasoned-out principles about justice and morality keep a person from rightly judging in a matter of legal and moral justice. This would then mean that any principle of ethics that bears upon a
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