The Difference Three Percent Makes
by Betsy Childs HowardAccording to the Planned Parenthood, just 3 percent of its services are abortion related. So why are so many clinics closing? Continue Reading »
Buffering Abortion Speech
by Gregory Pine, O.P.On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided to strike down as unconstitutional the 2007 Massachusetts law which mandated a thirty-five foot buffer around medical facilities that offer abortions. Since the decision was handed down, the fallout has been contentious. One article, emblematic of a genre of literature which focuses on radicalism, sees little in the way of fruitful discourse happening outside of clinics: Continue Reading »
Autonomy’s Triumph in Canada
by David T. KoyzisThe autonomous person, liberated from the constraints of the past and free perhaps even from the stigma of social disapproval of his chosen lifestyle, has become the new god of the Canadian civil religion, almost totally eclipsing whatever communitarian elements have managed to survive the cultural shifts of recent decades. Continue Reading »
Is It Wrong to Say “Unborn Child”?
by Matthew SchmitzAre pro-lifers wrong to speak of the “unborn child”? A reader annoyed with Ramesh Ponnuru’s use of the phrase wrote him, saying, “There is no child until birth. Late in pregnancy the fetus may have some moral status but it is still not a child.” Ramesh replied: “Merriam-Webster’s . . . . Continue Reading »
How Will Americans Learn About The Next Kermit Gosnell?
by Pete SpiliakosMaybe by conservative donors being smarter with their money. . . . . Continue Reading »
Mean Christianity
by Kate PitroneLast week, Kimberly Hyatt of Patheos asked why Christians are mean in “Look at the Christians: See How Mean They Are” . “Perhaps it is past time for us to stop focusing on what others are doing or trying to do and start taking responsibility for our own actions and their . . . . Continue Reading »
A Prepared Romney Could Win An Abortion Fight With Obama
by Pete SpiliakosReal Clear Politics has run a pretty good article on the pros and cons of Romney picking Bob McDonnell for Vice President. The article quotes Quentin Kidd as saying that McDonnell’s social issues record could hurt Romney among some women and “If . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl’s Rock Songbook #27: Are There Anti-Abortion Rock Songs?
by Carl ScottRobert Cheeks suggests in his comment on my last Songbook post that if there aren’t any, there’s really no point in me saying that Rock is ambivalent about or even resistant to modernity. He has a point. So, here are two possible candidates. The first is the most obvious choice, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert George’s Electric Question
by Carl ScottSo here’s a link to the question Pete’s been talking about, the one the mighty Robert George posed to Ron Paul on the 14th amendment. The whole thing’s a good taste of Paul for those unfamiliar, but George begins right at 17 minutes in. This is a good format for Paul, and I was . . . . Continue Reading »
Proper Thought About the Unborn Child
by Hunter BakerFrom Francis Canavan’s The Pluralist Game:If we take the principles of liberal individualism as axiomatic, we find it possible to think of the fetus and the woman as the parties of the first and second part arguing over their respective rights. We are then able to blind ourselves to the . . . . Continue Reading »
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