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This is the final post in a series on abortion, engaging with Richard Hays’ chapter on the topic in his The Moral Vision of the New Testament, in light of the upcoming Referendum on 25 May 2018.
This post will focus on the practical implications of the theology outlined in the previous posts.
What does it look like for the church to be a ‘community of life’ within a ‘culture of death’?
Hays argues that if the biblical paradigms (post 4) were put into practice within the church, then abortion would hardly ever be necessary within the Christian…



