And I know you said you “don’t want to debate” but to try to come to the most exact understanding of the situation possible is incumbent upon all of us. Inexact understandings will mislead us.
We can appeal to the kind of dim consciousness of God that is called “natural law” but even that varies in intensity and spectrum in different peoples. The moment it is set up as some kind of rule in its own self... as though it could self exist the way gospel does... is the moment we attempt to embrace a nebula. All manner of argument can and will be made about its specifics, for that reason. Nothing can substitute for genuine gospel witness.
So let us of course persuade a society through whatever light we can shed upon it that abortion is wrong, and then thank the Lord when it is thus persuaded. However we must not rest. This is only a witness in itself to something greater.
Just because a particular denomination has reified a nebulous concept doesn’t mean that it can stand alone.
? You probably make a good point. My point is very general. Very. And it certainly allows for divine intervention along with fall from grace as a nation if we don’t just stop the sanctioning of abortion but also allows for not being a theocracy. We don’t want us Catholics taking over any more than any other denomination. Spreading the good Word is still an individual calling
Natural law comes from God as He is tge creator.
In any case, mothers killing their own babies is just wrong and for us as a nation to sanction it goes against natural law. It causes a lot of trouble That can be said without forcing religion into anyone