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Entry: Is Abortion Racist? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/is_abortion_racist#23985 Post contents: RE Caper: I hate to disagree with you, since I enjoy so many of your comments, but I think that Catholic theology would teach us that man's "right to live" was compromised by the Fall. Otherwise God, or nature, or wild beasts, or accidents, r old age, would violating our "right" when they caused our death. I think the "right" to live was one of the Preternatural Gifts, revoked after Original Sin. Nevertheless, we experience death as an evil, since it violates our original nature, and we understand that killing the innocent violates the Natural Law written in our hearts--reinforced for all by the Covenant with Noah, and for Jews (and later Christians) by the Ten Commandments. Still, there is no intrinsic "right" to live--otherwise, you and I would be violating the rights of every impoverished person on earth when we spent a PENNY on the arts, or culture, or leisure, instead of pouring it into famine relief. That is the important difference between paleo and neo conservatism. We understand the implications of the Fall. Sent at: 2008 08 08