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The Eighth Amendment: choose life
Students at St Augustine Academy in Ventura, California, joined hundreds of students at Catholic colleges and high schools across the US staging a pro-life walkout on April 11
“I
have
set
before
you
life
and
death,
blessing
and
curse ;
therefore
choose
life,
that
you
and
your
descendants
may
live” (Deuteronomy
30:19)
This verse is taken from the last chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament. Capturing the essence of how the future of the nation of Israel depended on the response of the Jewish people to the Covenant, it underlines the connections between life and blessing. To the nation…