Tag: personhood

Unborn made in ‘image of God,’ Trump tells nation

Originally published in Baptist Press President Donald Trump affirmed unborn children as image bearers of God and urged the US Congress to ban late-term abortions in his second State of the Union speech. Though Democrats and Republicans are deeply divided over abortion, the president asked for unity of effort “to […]

The moral status of the human embryo — when is a person?

By Peter Saunders — Originally published in Christian Medical Comment — via Contact Online Weblog The moral status of the embryo is one of the key pressure-points in ethical debates about post-coital contraception, therapeutic cloning, pre-implantation diagnosis, artificial reproduction, embryo research and cloning. The issue, which has profound implications for medical […]