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Using St. Augustine to justify abortion?

Dr. John Nawn, First Things

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

A recent article by a physician in the New England Journal of Medicine calls on doctors to defy local anti-abortion laws by citing Augustine’s dictum that “an unjust law is no law at all.” This misunderstands both Augustine’s writing on abortion and his writing on justice.

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