Pope condones contraception to avoid Zika?
Pope Francis told reporters that women threatened with the Zika virus, which causes birth defects, could use contraception. Abortion, though, he emphasized, is an “absolute evil,” which should never be committed. This is extraordinary. It seems to me that if you make this exception, in which the end justifies the means, the whole fabric of the [Read More…]
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Canada’s prisoner of conscience on the new euthanasia law
As Canada’s new law permitting euthanasia goes into effect, the pro-life prisoner of conscience Mary Wagner–in the maximum security prison for women for counseling mothers not to get an abortion–has written a public letter. She warns against pro-lifers seeking conscience clauses and other ways to protect themselves against the law, as opposed to standing up against its evil [Read More…]
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When being pro-life was a liberal issue
Not only did liberals used to be pro-life, opposing abortion used to be a progressive principle. So shows a new book on the origins of the pro-life movement before Roe v. Wade, reviewed in the Atlantic. From Emma Green, Review: ‘Defenders of the Unborn’ and the Secret Progressive History of the Pro-Life Movement – The Atlantic: [Read More…]
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Outrage at Super Bowl Doritos ad for “humanizing fetus”
The pro-abortion group NARAL is outraged at the Super Bowl ad that showed a fetus on ultrasound craving the dad’s Doritos. The accusation was that the ad used “the antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses.” Humanizing fetuses! What about the pro-abortion tactic of dehumanizing fetuses? You’ve got to read Russell Moore’s account of the controversy, excerpted [Read More…]
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Judge slaps injunction against more Planned Parenthood videos
In yet another victory for Planned Parenthood lawyers, a judge granted a preliminary injunction against the Center for Medical Progress, forbidding them to issue any more videos of the abortionist organization discussing fetal tissue trafficking. From U.S. judge grants injunction against anti-abortion activists | Reuters: A U.S. judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction stopping the [Read More…]
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Yet another Planned Parenthood video
Even though they have been indicted for their undercover journalism, the folks at the Center for Medical Progress have released another video, this one showing a Planned Parenthood official explaining the accounting tricks they use to hide their organ trafficking. You can see the video at the link, after the jump, which also outlines the [Read More…]
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Can you be pro-life and pro-gun?
Evangelical pastor Rob Schenck criticizes his fellow conservative Christians for being knee-jerk 2nd Amendment supporters, arguing that it is impossible to be both pro-life and pro-gun. A Lutheran police officer, Joseph Klotz, answers those arguments, concluding that the missing piece of the puzzle is vocation. From Joseph Klotz, Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, and Pro-Vocation | Steadfast Lutherans: [Read More…]
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How Planned Parenthood got its accusers indicted
Reuters has an eye-opening story on what we blogged about earlier, how Planned Parenthood lawyers turned the tables on those who made the videos exposing the organization’s organ trafficking. By working closely with the Texas grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood, the lawyers were able to frame the case so that the abortionists were no longer [Read More…]
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How they got the Planned Parenthood videos
The Washington Post has a fascinating profile of David Daleiden, who insinuated himself into abortionist circles to secretly record those Planned Parenthood videos showing officials joking about abortion and fetal tissue trafficking. The story tells how he did it. From Meet the millennial who infiltrated the guarded world of abortion providers – The Washington Post: [Read More…]
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Euthansia for the depressed
Belgium, having legalized euthanasia, keeps extending it to more and more people: to terminally ill children too young to request it; and now to physically healthy folks who suffer from depression. Doctors have recently approved euthanasia for a he…
“Elder orphans”
As the Baby Boomers move into old age, a new problem is emerging. Many of them chose not to have children. Now large percentages of the elderly will have no children or other family members to care for them. As it is, 60% of the residents of nursin…
Appeals court upholds abortion restrictions
Pro-lifers have been battling abortion on the state level by pushing legislation requiring that abortion clinics meet the same standards as hospitals and other surgical centers. This has been putting abortion clinics out of business. Pro-abortion activists have challenged those laws. But a federal appeals court has ruled that the state of Texas, which enacted [Read More…]
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How Christianity humanized children
One of the many cultural influences of Christianity, observes Eric Metaxas, discussing a book on the subject, was the practice of treating children as human beings of great value. That was not how children were treated in the ancient pre-Christian world. Notice too that now that the Christian cultural consensus is unravelling, we have already [Read More…]
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How Christianity humanized children
One of the many cultural influences of Christianity, observes Eric Metaxas, discussing a book on the subject, was the practice of treating children as human beings of great value. That was not how children were treated in the ancient pre-Christian world. Notice too that now that the Christian cultural consensus is unravelling, we have already [Read More…]
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Is the religous right finished?
Are religious conservatives finished as a political and cultural force? Not at all, argues David French, responding to someone who claims that Mike Huckabee’s inevitable defeat will put the nails in the coffin of the Christian right. French says that Christian conservatives don’t have to vote for Huckabee because every other Republican candidate are claiming [Read More…]
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Hillary says “religious beliefs. . .have to be changed”
Hillary Clinton says that “religious beliefs. . .have to be changed” when they interfere with “reproductive health care” (that is, abortion). And pro-abortion laws “have to be backed up with resources and political will.” Notice that she doesn’t say “religious beliefs have to change.” That would arguably be bad enough, but it allows for religions [Read More…]
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Laestadian Lutherans and their large families
Rev. Christopher Jackson informed me that the new Prime Minister of Finland is a Laestadian Lutheran, a pietist strain best known today for rejecting birth control and having very large families. From Rev. Christopher Jackson: The newly elected PM of Finland, Juha Sipilä, is a Laestadian Lutheran. There are different Laestadian groups out there, but [Read More…]
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Universities recruiting girls to have late-term abortions
The University of Hawaii and the University of Washington-Seattle are recruiting girls as young as 14 to have second-trimester abortions, as part of a research study on those kill-and-dismember procedures. From University Recruits Teens to Abort Babies for Research – Christian News Headlines: Researchers in Hawaii are looking for girls to participate in second trimester [Read More…]
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Making dismemberment abortion sound better
Kansas has banned late-term abortions that dismember the child. Other states are considering passing the same law. You have got to read the news story in the Washington Post, excerpted after the jump. You might notice some bias in the story. But notice to what extent the journalist has to twist her language–to the point [Read More…]
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A pro-abortion children’s book
A new children’s book, entitled Sister Apple, Sister Pig, is an attempt to teach children that it is a good thing to have a sibling who was aborted. From Michael Avramovich, Shocking New Children’s Book – Mere Comments: Sister Apple, Sister Pig is a new, very creepy children’s book by Mary Walling Blackburn. Like other [Read More…]
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Birth tourism
Children born inside the borders of the United States are automatically American citizens. This has created a practice known as “birth tourism,” in which pregnant women from other countries come to the United States to give birth, thus giving the baby American citizenship. This has become a major industry in China. But the reason is [Read More…]
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Male abortions & the end of “women’s issues”?
Feminism and gender politics in general may be coming apart, since gender identity is being parsed into ever-smaller mutually offended units. To so much as speak of “women’s issues” is now considered in some of these circles to be oppressive to transexuals, an act of “cissexism,” defined as “transphobia.” To the point that some pro-abortion [Read More…]
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Abortion as “social good” still has a stigma
The stigma against having a baby out of wedlock has faded. And the stigma against having an abortion continues. Some pro-abortion activists are trying to erase that stigma by making the case that abortion is nothing to feel bad about and is, in fact, a “social good.” But those efforts are flying in the face [Read More…]
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Righteous eating
“Orthodoxy” means “right belief.” Now there is a new word, “orthorexia,” meaning “right eating.” The National Eating Disorders Association defines it as “fixation on righteous eating.” From Orthorexia Nervosa | National Eating Disorders Association: Those who have an “unhealthy obsession” with otherwise healthy eating may be suffering from “orthorexia nervosa,” a term which literally means [Read More…]
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