Life in the Womb by S. M. Hutchens

Life in the Womb

by S. M. Hutchens

One of the chief reasons, I believe, that serious believers evince so much empathy for preborn children is that they identify strongly with them. They, in the process of being born again, regard themselves as no completed thing, but prize their lives as still in formation. Their understanding is embryonic, their full and true life not yet come to the Birth which is merely death to the unbeliever. They hear and see dimly, as enclosed in their mother's womb, and there they anticipate in a slow dawning the unimaginable emergence into the full light, no longer seeing through a glass darkly, but face to face. We are they, and would live.

S. M. Hutchens is a senior editor and longtime writer for Touchstone.

subscription options

Order
Print/Online
Subscription

Get six issues (one year) of Touchstone PLUS full online access including pdf downloads for only $39.95. That's only $3.34 per month!

Order
Online Only
Subscription

Get a one-year full-access subscription to the Touchstone online archives for only $19.95. That's only $1.66 per month!

bulk subscriptions

Order Touchstone subscriptions in bulk and save $10 per sub! Each subscription includes 6 issues of Touchstone plus full online access to touchstonemag.com—including archives, videos, and pdf downloads of recent issues for only $29.95 each! Great for churches or study groups.

Transactions will be processed on a secure server.


more from the online archives

14.1—January/February 2001

The Christian Heart of Fatherhood

The Place of Marriage, Authority & Service in the Recovery of Fatherhood by John M. Haas

18.4—May 2005

The Absurd Reich

on the Politics of Demonic Nothingness by Gary Inbinder

29.3—May/June 2016

Health of the Nation

A Deathbed Reflection on Catholic Social Teaching & Our Future Prospects by Karl D. Stephan

calling all readers

Please Donate

"There are magazines worth reading but few worth saving . . . Touchstone is just such a magazine."
—Alice von Hildebrand

"Here we do not concede one square millimeter of territory to falsehood, folly, contemporary sentimentality, or fashion. We speak the truth, and let God be our judge. . . . Touchstone is the one committedly Christian conservative journal."
—Anthony Esolen, Touchstone senior editor

Support Touchstone

00