In 2007, Barack Obama blasted the Supreme Court for enforcing the Bush administration’s ban on late-term abortions. Now he’s singing a different tune, one that people of good conscience should like better. Obama said prohibitions on late-term abortions must contain "a strict, well defined exception for the health of the mother." Obama then added: "Now,…
Category: Abortion
Guns and Grief
The thick, bittersweet irony of the Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down Washington D.C.’s ban on "live" guns is that is has the left-wing, anti-gun gang completely up in arms. Robert Stein calls the mind set behind the decision "our national schizophrenia", then proceeds to demonstrate how utterly clueless an obviously intelligent man can be…
Partial Birth Abortion OK in Virginia
The New York Times says that a 3-person panel from the U.S. Appeals Court 4th Circuit has rejected the state’s partial birth abortion law, a ban modeled on the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last year. Why did this happen? Seems like it should have been a…
Abortion as Art
Aliza Shvarts, a Yalie art major, will be displaying her senior art project on campus next week. The content: videos of herself suffering through a series of deliberately self-induced miscarriages and wads of plastic smeared with the blood and tissue expelled from her womb in the process. Freaky, to say the least. Per Yale Daily…
Abortion Bills Stall in Congress
Samantha Torrence says: "One of the major societal epidemics in America today is the lack of respect for not only the sanctity of life, but a lack of love for our own children." No surprise that this comes during an epidemic of self-indulgent, irresponsible behavior. Suffering the consequences for one’s actions, it seems, is no…
Torture, the Litmus Test
There have been several anti-torture articles today, most in opposition to the practice. I’m glad of that – no one should want to have to inflict pain and suffering on another human being. But how important is the debate and/or the practice? At the LA Times, Rosa Brooks calls torture “the new abortion” for the…
Huckabee: Abortion is the American Holocaust
Jamie Crawford at CNN’s Political Ticker blog reports this about Mike Huckabee: “Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce,” the former Arkansas governor said. “It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we…
Pope: Abortion not a Right
Pope Benedict said today that abortion is not a fundamental human right. The 80-year-old German Pontiff told diplomats and representatives of international organizations that Europe could not deny its Christian roots because Christianity had played a decisive role in forging its history and culture. “It was in Europe that the notion of human rights was first formulated….
To Die For
Dr. Jack Kevorkian will be released on parole June 1st after serving 8 years in prison for helping a 52 year old main suffering from Lou Gehrig’s Disease die. In various interviews, Kevorkian has said: “Legally it was wrong. It was an infraction of the law. I had to do it that way — or…
Guiliani & Abortion – Finally Some Sense
Rudy Guiliani recently ensured that anti-abortion Republicans would have to look elsewhere for a candidate who represents them on that issue by re-stating his belief in the procedure. Speaking at Houston Baptist University’s Mabee Teaching Theater, he said: “I believe you have to respect their viewpoint and give them a level of choice,” the former…