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Abortion and capital punishment: No contradiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

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Abstract

Matthew Flannagan explains why Christians can consistently both oppose abortion and support the death penalty.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2008

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References

1Harrison, Beverly, Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1983), p 35Google Scholar
2Harrison, Beverly, Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1983), p 35Google Scholar
3 In this discussion of formal and implicit contradictions I am influenced by Plantinga, Alvin, God, Freedom and Evil (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1974),. Pp. 1416.Google Scholar