Abortion, execution, and the consequences of taking life
By: James D. Slack
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781412842228; 9781412810210
Subjects: Moral conditions; Prison sentences; Abortion; Capital punishment
Description: The volume presumes a theocentric foundation envisioned by the American Founders. It explores the model's first source of truth, biblical scripture, as it applies to the public actions of murder, abortion, and capital punishment. Then it investigates the intimate reality of these acts. These realities are examined in a variety of settings, resulting in a mosaic pattern of public action about capital punishment and abortion. Slack underscores the importance of government's role of providing outward justice, as well as the citizen's responsibility to be supportive of government tasks in order to reconcile the reality of life-taking with the moral compass professed in the American political community. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-206) and index.