Abortion and the Culture Wars: A Struggle Between Incompatible Views of Morality and Reality

Herman T. Engelhardt*

I. Introduction: Understanding the Evil of Abortion

Abortion is a kind of murder practiced throughout the world, usually without a sense of guilt. It has become a widely-accepted medical practice supported by numerous governments and non-governmental organizations. The number of unborn children killed in their mother’s womb across the world is more than the entire population of Ireland, Greece, Hungary, Canada, Romania, Poland, or Spain. It may even be equivalent to killing the entire population of France annually.[1] Abortion has become particularly widespread in Eastern Europe, where the previous atheist-communist regimes brutally disrupted and dismantled Orthodox Christian culture and institutions.

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Correction Not Condemnation of a bad Person

The Elder Porfyrios proved himself an anatomist and healer of both the human soul and human spiritual relations.He said to me in relation to this «Our aim is not to condemn evil, but to correct it.With condemnation, a man can be lost, with understanding and help he will be saved.We must treat the sinner with love and we must respect his freedom.When a member of the family knocks a vase off the table and breaks it we usually get angry. If that crucial moment, in a movement of spiritual upliftment, we show understanding and we excuse the damage, we win both our soul and that of our brother’s.That is all our spiritual life: an uplifting movement, from the annoyance that comes from egotism to the understanding that comes from love.»

Constantine Yiannitsiotis-«With Elder Porfyrios»