It's not like you have a superstitious, Christian, biblical, pro-life position over here and then the standard, obvious, rational position over there. When you see a sentence like that, you just need to sit back for a moment and recognize every single position on abortion, every single position upon human life, every single understanding of what it means to be human involves some kind of presumption about what constitutes a person. She then goes on and says, "But this argument rests on a presupposition about what constitutes a person." Margaret Wertheim indicates that in the aftermath of the abortion decision, just a matter of this past June by the Supreme Court, there are issues that are simply going to have to be faced, and one of them is the moral status of the unborn child and Wertheim writes, "Is a pregnant body one person or two? If you believe the anti-abortion movement, the answer is clear, a pregnant body is two distinct persons and one of those persons, the woman, does not have the right to take away the 'life"' and the word 'life,' by the way, is put in quotation marks, "of the other." So even the word life here related to the inhabitant of the womb is treated as if it's a literary device. All you have to do is see the headline to know that the use of the phrase medieval theology along with fetal personhood is to say, "This is nothing more than antiquarian, oppressive, some kind of presupposition and superstition." You don't even have to look at the article yet. For one thing, how often do you see a headline with the word theology in it in the secular age, but you know exactly what's behind this. You understand immediately what's going on here. Margaret Wertheim, writing for the Los Angeles Times, offers an article and just notice the headline, "Fetal personhood has a whiff of medieval theology." In the confusion around us, Christians need to see some issues very clearly, issues that emerge simply because arguments, all of a sudden, seem to break out into public conversation, arguments that demand our attention.
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