Context : Frank Schaeffer is the son of famed evangelical teacher Francis Schaeffer. The two of them helped bring abortion to the forefront of the American evangelical conscience in the 1980s. Frank has since repented of his conservatism. In May, 2022, after the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade , Schaeffer was interviewed by CNN s Christiane Amanpour. In this…
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