Tag: abortion

E. J. Hutchinson — May 5, 2022

“You Shall Not Murder”: Johannes Brenz on the Killing of Children

Abortion–which is a euphemism for “killing one’s own offspring”–has been in the news again, and with it the usual moral confusions, including among Christians. Thus one learns that one must…

Miles Smith — May 3, 2022

Early Republic Evangelicals, Abortion, and the Culture Wars

In 1823, Hugh Lenox Hodge became a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school. Hodge hailed from a well-known Philadelphia family. His father, also Hugh, served as a physician…