PRO-ABORT PHILOSOPHER SWITCHES SIDES

BOSTON, Sept 18 (LSN) – Pro-life Evangelical Christian Chuck Colson this week reported the remarkable conversion from a pro-abortion conviction to a pro-life view of leading deconstructionist thinker Stanley Fish. The episode took place at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual convention on Labor Day weekend. Stanley Fish of Duke University and Robert George of Princeton were debating “Can we debate important moral issues when people proceed from deeply divergent starting points?”  The professors exchanged papers before the debate and George, described by Colson as “a young, brilliant political philosopher,  and also a conservative Catholic Christian,” raised the issue of abortion, and Fish’s well known pro-abortion views, in defence of his position. Fish often argued that abortion exemplified the case for not being able to debate an issue given divergent starting points since the fetus’  right to life is specifically a religious assertion. George’s paper, however, made a convincing pro-life case without the mention of religion at all.  Amazingly, Colson relates, “during the panel discussion, attended by 200 people, Fish conceded that “Professor George is right, and he is right to correct me.” Furthermore Fish “repudiated his previous pro-  choice position on abortion (and) chastised abortion rights advocates for ignoring what science has to say about the fetus’ humanity.”