Many Americans responded to the plight of both the unborn and the refugee in similar fashion. Almost everyone believed, wittingly or not, that Christian teaching should determine American law and policy on both of these issues concerning the dignity of the human person and the family.
That is, both sides appealed to the justice owed to the human person, and both sides appealed to mercy, and to charity - those especially Christian ideas that resonate through the ages. That justice and mercy should kiss, the psalmist cried.
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