David Hahn covers Massachusetts governor Maura Healey signing one of the country's most radical abortion laws to date, sparking calls for her excommunication, and the case of surrogate mother Mackenna West, who refused to abort baby Gabriel despite a court battle with his biological parents. He reports on the escalating violence facing the West Bank's last entirely Christian village, Taybeh, as Pope Leo calls for an end to attacks on Palestinian Christians. Hahn also examines a Spanish priest's homily denying the bodily Assumption of Mary, and explains why the Church insists the dogma must be taken literally.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro: this week's stories
1:14 The Democratic Party's shift on abortion
3:02 Governor Healey signs Massachusetts' new abortion law
6:31 Calls for Healey's excommunication
8:31 What Americans actually think about late-term abortion
15:12 Surrogate mother Mackenna West refuses to abort baby Gabriel
16:41 Texas secures a court order for baby Gabriel's care
18:19 Reaction to the surrogacy case
19:23 The ethics of commercial surrogacy
24:35 Christian decline in the Holy Land
26:07 Settler violence against the village of Taybeh
28:09 Church leaders respond to the violence
30:45 Taybeh's uncertain future
32:31 A Spanish priest denies Mary's bodily Assumption
34:26 Mary's true dignity versus mythology
37:27 Why the Church says the Assumption must be taken literally
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The David Hahn Show | Episode #4

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