by Rob Schwarzwalder
A judge’s decision to order the abortion of “a mentally ill woman’s unborn baby and sterilize her — if it meant she had to be ‘coaxed, bribed, or even enticed … by ruse’ into the procedure” has drawn appropriate fire from officials in the Bay State. Read more…
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8th Annual Walk for Life West Coast on Saturday
Join us to promote marriage and family while walking for life at the 8th Annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco this Saturday, January 21, 2012. Read more…
In a Melbourne maternity hospital last month a very shocking event occurred. A healthy, 32-week-old, wanted, unborn child was killed by a lethal injection when the sonographer performing the procedure mistook the child for its unhealthy twin. When the mistake was realised, the mother had an emergency caesarean section and the sick child was also terminated, according to news reports. The whole tragic episode left the mother traumatised and everybody involved distraught. Read more…
That’s the issue dividing pro-life groups, in other words.
Not the words of the New York Times, which prominently featured this story on the front page above the fold in Monday’s edition. Let’s look at what they said and how they said it. Read more…
So horrible.
by Peter Saunders
Children with special needs can be a great challenge to care for but a tragic story from Australia this week demonstrates that the search for the perfect child can have devastating consequences. Read more…
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A stunning Planned Parenthood document that includes radical ideas such as compulsory abortion and sterilization; special “permits” to have children; penalizing parents; and encouraging homosexuality dovetails with some Obamacare mandates, according to a former Planned Parenthood director. Read more…
by Steven Ertelt
After making headlines nationwide with curious comments in an interviewin which many observers say he indicated he believes human life begins at implantation, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has restated his pro-life views. Read more…
This is so horrifying and chilling.
The human mind can hold onto blatant contradictions, but in order to do so it must block out certain unpleasant truths. One such uncomfortable truth has now come knocking at the door in Philadelphia, where a “house of horrors” abortion clinic was discovered early this year. At this clinic viable babies were outright murdered after their births had been induced and they had been fully delivered. Clinic staff have testified that on hundreds of occasions, second and third trimester babies that were breathing, moving and even crying were slaughtered by having their necks slit or their spines severed. Read more…
MercatorNet interviews the author of a major study with hotly-contested findings. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
Eve Surgical Center’s business dates back to the 1980s, when it operated as a secret clinic until it was discovered by Operation Rescue in the early 1990s. After partial-birth abortions were banned by law, the process was modified so that the procedure began with a fatal injection into the unborn baby’s heart before the child’s body was extracted. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
The European Union’s top court has ruled that patents cannot be granted on stem-cell techniques using human embryos.
While the decision is being heralded by pro-life and religious groups, Dr. David Prentice of Family Research Council says it doesn’t ban research on embryos or embryonic stem cells, but it does take away a lot of the incentive. Read more…
By James V. Schall, S. J.
Robert Spitzer, S. J.’s new book, Ten Universal Principles, deserves special attention. Spitzer takes up arguments that were used in Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court to justify its position that an unborn child was not a “person” under the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment. He is not the first to articulate the flaws in the Court’s arguments. Hadley Arkes, Robert George, Leon Kass, Gerald Bradley, Charles Rice, among others, have addressed this issue. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
Planned Parenthood has ended its legal attack on Arizona’s “Abortion Consent Act,” which had been held up in court since signed into law in September 2009.
The law, argued before the Arizona Court of Appeals in mid-June, prohibits non-physicians from performing surgical abortions and provides for women to be fully informed with accurate information on abortion including possible consequences 24 hours in advance. In addition, it protects health workers who object to participate on religious or ethical grounds and requires notarized parental consent for minors seeking abortions. Read more…
by Sheila Liaugminas
Oh, the irony. We’re talking about a ‘personhood amendment.’
We’re at the point in Orwellian politics and culture at which states are taking legislative measures to define and protect basic truths. Ones we all knew until about the seventies. Read more…
I receive an excellent newspaper cutting service from the Movimento per la Vita in Italy, and am grateful to my pro-life colleagues in that great country for keeping us up-to-date on the significant progress they are making on so many ethical fronts. Read more…
by Steven W. Mosher
More than 80 percent of voters in Mississippi describe themselves as pro-life. Why then, did more than 55 percent vote against the so-called “personhood” amendment?
On November 8, the voters of what is arguably the most pro-life state in the union defeated a ballot initiative that would have declared life begins at fertilization. More than 80 percent of voters in Mississippi describe themselves as pro-life. Why then, did more than 55 percent vote against the so-called “personhood” amendment? Read more…
by Charlie Butts
A group of nurses threatened with termination are setting the record straight after the hospital where they are employed denied forcing them to train and participate in abortions. Read more…
This is nuts.
JERUSALEM, November 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Wrongful life” lawsuits, in which doctors are held liable for not discovering fetal abnormalities that might have prompted parents to abort their child, have become so common in Israel that the government has set up a committee to investigate the issue, New Scientist reports. Read more…
Early last month, President Obama bragged to a St. Louis crowd about the recent Health and Human Services’ regulations that will require thousands of religious employers to pay for contraception, sterilization and drugs that probably cause abortions. The crowd cheered the president’s contraceptive mandate. He joined their revelry, shouting, “Darn Tootin’!” to the crowd’s delight. Read more…
November 9, 2011 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.
Think overpopulation, poverty, climate change, and abortion can all be solved by more birth control? Think again.
Who knew that the intractable global problems of “overpopulation,” poverty, carbon emissions, climate change, deforestation, civil wars, unplanned pregnancies, and abortions could all be solved by the simple expedient of more birth control? Nicholas Kristof, for one. Read more…
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