Word: personhood
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...this with no small awareness of those whose efforts to live faithful to God's word and to their human personhood face enormous hardship: not only homosexual people but the many single, married and divorced men and women whose circumstances or conditions in life make it difficult if not impossible to experience the full sexual expression of human love. It is in these, as in other ways that we confront our incompleteness or woundedness as persons, that we turn to God and our community for another kind of love that we believe is more than, but never less than fully...
Holly (Mary Tyler Moore) is the ideal mom. She loves hubby (Ted Danson) and the kids; she stretches her body on the rack of aerobics to atone for uncommitted sins. And yet something is missing: oh, a sense of her own radiant personhood. Can she find it with Sandy (Christine Lahti), a TV reporter who needs a best friend too? Maybe not, since, by just the darnedest coincidence, Holly's hubby and Sandy's lover are the same wonderful...
Speaking before an audience of 35 at a Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club forum, Dr. Joseph Fletcher, professor of Medicine and author of the book "Situation Ethics: The New Morality," said the abortion issue is an ethical determination of when "personhood" begins. "Everyone agrees that life begins at conception--but the issue is when should we assign the rights and status of a person to the fetus," he said...
...more intellectual moralists, such rhetoric is hardly taken seriously. Lewis Smedes, who teaches theology and ethics at the Fuller Theological Seminary in California, is an evangelical who takes a more reasoned but nonetheless critical view of the trend of recent years. Says he: "The new morality is based on personhood and that could open the door to mass egotism. Our moral standards today are less impressed with the morality of the law or our institutions and more impressed with the value of the person. Even religious people are no longer impressed with marriage as an institution. If the union does...
...Court will consider issues of "personhood"--which include abortion, freedom of expression and freedom of information--as its primary concern in coming years, Freund added