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Jean Vanier speaks about abortion in The Globe and Mail

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Since September, The Globe and Mail has been publishing a monthly exchange of letters between Jean and journalist Ian Brown. In the letters published on Saturday, November 29, Jean Vanier writes about the delicate question of abortion.

Ian Brown and Jean Vanier in Trosly-Breui, Francel

No doubt, those who wished to see Jean Vanier say a firm “no” to abortion will be disappointed. Others may be surprised, as the Globe’s editor noted in his introduction.

“We are not in a situation where we must choose between abortion and its rejection, between pro-life and pro-choice positions,” Jean insists.

Human frailty, the complexity of our lives and the personal and sacred histories of each person must lead us beyond these misplaced debates. The real question, he emphasizes, the only one that remains when the arguments of one “side” or the other are exhausted, is the following: How do we understand “life”; what is the meaning of “life”? Click here to read the article onlin in the Globe : After Morgentaler, Jean Vanier kept his Order of Canada. Why?
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