As a generality I think we -- as a people -- are becoming far too selfishly frivolous when it comes to matters of life and death. Or put from a different angle: those who are most in need of protection are having that protection rationalized away from them. Those in the womb, "pulling the plug", … [Read more...]
Whatever Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger
January 7, 2012 by 112 Comments
Keep your laws off my body is the first thing I see upon entering the locker-room emblazoned on a bumper sticker where I work. I find this to be one of the weaker slogans offered by those who defend elective abortion: That the issue is about the woman's body alone. In fact, I would go so far as to … [Read more...]
Can’t Hardly Wait
December 14, 2011 by 4 Comments
There are many reasons women offer as to why they seek or have sought abortion. In my opinion, none are good enough to justify taking the life of the developing baby within her with the exception of saving the life of the mother. I admit when I characterize the reasons given for abortion, it … [Read more...]
When Does Life Begin? Hint: It Doesn’t Matter
December 8, 2011 by 29 Comments
The morality of abortion hinges on different criteria depending on with whom it is you are discussing the issue. One of the most persistent defenses for abortion is the question of when life begins -- despite the answer to this question having been known for decades (See: Get A Life, Part 1). The … [Read more...]
Matters Of Life And Death
November 25, 2011 by 4 Comments
(KMTR) -- Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has imposed a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term, saying he's morally opposed to the capital punishment and has long regretted allowing two men to be executed in the 1990s... [A]nd both voluntarily waived their appeals. When I saw … [Read more...]
When Pigs Fly
November 14, 2011 by 61 Comments
Some of my readers may remember from part three of the Get A Life series, a syllogism that had been offered to me from someone defending abortion. The following is the detailed version of the simplistic syllogism that was very loosely presented to me in the CARM chatroom by a regular who goes by … [Read more...]
Get A Life, Part 3
November 7, 2011 by 17 Comments
This is part two of a three-part series addressing three arguments made in defense of elective abortion. Read: Part 1, Part 2 Since Roe v Wade arguments in defense of elective abortion have undergone an evolution. The nature of this evolution has been one of retreat. Elective abortion was … [Read more...]
Hookworms, Mosquitoes, and Embryos
November 1, 2011 by 43 Comments
Defenses for abortion come in three varieties: medical, philosophical, and emotional. The first two are fairly easily dealt with, even if people do not amend their positions. The arguments are either true or false, sound or unsound. The last however, is much more problematic. Emotional arguments … [Read more...]
Get A Life, Part 2
October 19, 2011 by 13 Comments
This is part two of a three-part series addressing three arguments made in defense of elective abortion. Read Part 1 and Part 3. A variation of the first defense for elective abortion builds upon the same false assumption, that the embryo/fetus is not a human. The medical fact that a unique … [Read more...]
Get A Life, Part 1
October 16, 2011 by 54 Comments
This is the first of a three part series on common defenses of abortion. Read: Part 2 and Part 3. Many subjects can elicit an array of emotions with varying degrees of passion. I think those passions can often cloud and complicate what should more often than not, be a rather simple issue. It … [Read more...]
Is it really about life and death?
October 14, 2011 by 36 Comments
H.R. 358 has been dubbed by pro-abortion activists the "Let Women Die" Act, along with top Democrat legislators such as Nancy Pelosi joining in the rhetoric. Abortion has always been an impassioned issue. At times, those on both sides can become defensive and heated. While Scanning the … [Read more...]
Not Good Enough, But Why?
August 1, 2011 by 58 Comments
Previously I had put a question out there to those who profess to be pro-choice on the issue of abortion. I wanted to know if (in the opinion of someone who is pro-choice) there was ever a reason a woman offered for why she would want an abortion that was simply not a good reason. Regardless of … [Read more...]
Question For Abortion Advocates
July 26, 2011 by 37 Comments
Abortion is one of the hottest of hot button issues debated. Both sides of the issue can be thoroughly passionate in their stance. Whether you consider abortion to be morally right or wrong, women have many different reasons why they choose to abort. Those holding the pro-choice position support … [Read more...]
Safety First
July 14, 2011 by 16 Comments
It is not too often that I can report good news coming from the Guttmacher Institute who just recently reported the stark increase in the number of State laws restricting abortion on demand, but I'll take this news where ever I can get it. To those on the pro-life side of the debate this comes as … [Read more...]
Blinded By Hate
May 8, 2011 by 8 Comments
Paris Hatcher, the executive director of SPARK, Reproductive Justice Now, is being interviewed to get her reaction to "how pregnant women are treated" starting with a minority woman from Nashville who gave birth while incarcerated. The woman was reportedly placed in restraints while in transport to … [Read more...]
San Francisco activists looking to ban circumcision
May 3, 2011 by 4 Comments
Some San Francisco activists are gathering signatures in an effort to ban the custom of circumcision of male infant babies in the in the Bay area. If San Francisco passes this measure, it will be setting pace to become the most nannified city in the Union by following up their recent ban on Happy … [Read more...]
Political Hokey-Pokey
April 10, 2011 by 9 Comments
America has been in a financial crisis for some time now. And with dramatic cuts in spending necessary to stop the out-flow of money, some are concerned about which programs in the budget these cuts will come. Many people are objecting to any cuts which may affect the poor citizens. Much of the … [Read more...]
Slaughter the innocents…
April 8, 2011 by 47 Comments
"Kill babies, not women!" says Rep. Louise Slaughter (kind of). Rep. Slaughter is painting House Republicans who seek to defund Planned Parenthood's current hand-out from the tax payers to fund abortion as wanting to kill women. Says Slaughter: "In ’94 people were elected simply to come here to … [Read more...]
But Where’s The Body?
March 22, 2011 by 72 Comments
Today in a landmark victory (for now) for the pro-life movement, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed a bill requiring mothers seeking an abortion to wait 72 hours between the initial counseling with the doctor and having the abortion, in addition to requiring a visit to a crisis pregnancy … [Read more...]
It’s Not So Bad
February 8, 2011 by 34 Comments
A pharmacy in Colorado accidentally gave a woman pills used to induce abortion instead of her prescribed antibiotic. It seems Mareena Silva was given someone else's prescription, someone with the same last name and a very similar first name. Silva had apparently not paid close enough attention and … [Read more...]
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