2nd Edition

Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life

By James D. Slack Copyright 2011
229 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on the relationship between public morality and personal action in the American political community. It emphasizes the responsibilities of citizens and government to find and confirm truth, looking to specific sources: religious scripture and empirical events. Recognizing that we have a natural preference for distraction and distance from both sources of truth, Slack uses... Read more

Acknowledgments

Preface

1 Morality, Choice, and America
2 The Word of God and Other Reasoning
3 The Real of Abortion
4 The Real of Sustaining Life: Abortion Alternatives
5 The Real of Murder and Capital Punishment
6 The Real of Misery Shared: Prison without Parole
7 Outward Justice and Imago Dei

Bibliography

Index

Biography

James D. Slack