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…
Tonight Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse will interview Dr. Peggy Hartshorn, the President of Heartbeat International, from 6-7 pm PST. Then, from 7-8 pm PST, Dr. Morse will interview Dr. Byron Johnson, a Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion as well as director of the Program on Pro-social Behavior, both at Baylor University. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
In moving testimony, a rape victim has spoken out in favor of Mississippi’s proposed personhood amendment.
If approved by voters next Tuesday (Nov. 8), the constitutional amendment (Initiative 26) would ban abortion except to save the life of the mother, and it would ban cloning. The issue has spawned heated debate in the Magnolia State over recent weeks — a debate that has brought to light significant out-of-state financial backing from Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country. Read more…
by Russ Jones
The law school at the University of Mississippi played host last night to a discussion about the Personhood Amendment which will be on the state ballot next Tuesday. Proposition 26 defines human life to begin at conception. However, at last night’s forum only those who oppose the amendment were invited to speak — which upset some in attendance. Read more…
by Charlie Butts and Jody Brown
The pro-life group Live Action has conducted an undercover investigation exposing misinformation by opponents of Mississippi’s Personhood Amendment, an initiative that would declare a person a “person” at the point of conception.
by Charlie Butts
As Mississippi voters prepare to weigh in on a personhood amendment, one pastor argues that poverty is no excuse to abort an unborn child. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
Aside from the “Right to View” provision, the rest of the state’s “Woman’s Right to Know” law has already gone into effect. The law was enacted in July by a bi-partisan override of Governor Beverly Perdue’s (D) veto. It requires that mothers seeking an abortion be given information about the abortion before the procedure is performed. Read more…
SO GROSS! A little cannibalism, anyone?
LARGO, FL, October 25, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The pro-life organization Children of God for Life announced today the filing of a shareholder resolution with the Securities and Exchange Commission and PepsiCo, protesting the use of aborted a fetal cell line for the research and development of flavor enhancers for their beverages. Read more…
Herod’s Slaughter of the Innocents is one of the few ways a man can get close to proving the existence of sin by mere example. The story has haunted me since I was a child.
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