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Why Can’t Some People Recognize That Unborn Babies are Human Beings?

Not so long ago, a few of us from the class that I lead were having a conversation over warm bagels and hot coffee. We were chatting away when, as they say, from out of the blue, a member said something that reminded me of a quote to which all pro-lifers would probably say a hardy “Amen.” “All men matter,” wrote the great apologist G. K. Chesterton in The Complete Father Brown. “You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.” Rob Renfroe took Chesterton’s observation furthe