“Rooting abortion jurisprudence in expressive individualism, the Roe and Casey decisions absolved all of us of our obligation to come to the aid of women in crisis.”
One central problem for Christians now is how to reconcile two of the beatitudes in our lives as citizens—how to be peacemakers while also thirsting for justice.
Conceiving of our deepest selves in terms of neuroses and traumas sends us continually back on ourselves in a way that may reproduce rather than redress our anguish.