Of the many incongruities arising from last week’s savaging of the Susan G. Komen Foundation by Planned Parenthood and its minions, the greatest single seeming incongruity is the disproportionate attack on Komen in light of the paltry sum of money involved. Planned Parenthood is a $1 Billion per year organization who stood to lose $600,000 [...]
Archive for the ‘Abortion’ Category
Why Did Planned Parenthood Do It?
Posted in Abortion, Breast Cancer, Planned Parenthood, tagged Brinker, Komen, Planned Parenthood on February 6, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Komen Wants Out of the Planned Parenthood Leper Colony
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Breast Cancer, Uncategorized, tagged ABC Link, Breast Cancer, Defund, Oral Contraceptives, Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The first paper I ever wrote in graduate school was a review of the literature on Leprosy. It is a disease transmitted by contact that we now know to be caused by a close first cousin of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, and can be cured using the same antibiotics that we use against TB. [...]
Trust Women
Posted in Abortion on January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
“Trust Women” That was the admonishment of the deceased late-term abortionist, Dr. George Tiller. It’s also the admonishment of the rest of the pro-choice crowd. Too bad they really don’t mean it. Trust women. Pregnancy resource centers are filled with women who are being coerced to abort their babies, who are desperate for someone, anyone [...]
First Annual Conference on Poor Prenatal Diagnoses and Therapeutic Interventions
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, Dignity, Eugenics, tagged Poor Prenatal Diagnoses on January 17, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Late last Spring I became increasingly convinced that a major area not tackled by the pro-life movement in any coordinated fashion is the new eugenics movement in fetal medicine. Specifically, increasing numbers of physicians are advising, demanding, and even coercing women to abort babies diagnosed with what have become known collectively as “Poor Prenatal Diagnoses.” [...]
Black Abortion and the NAACP: From Middle Passage to Endgame
Posted in Abortion, Black History Month on December 20, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Word today from LifeNews.com that the NAACP is opposed to the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011, which criminalizes abortion on the grounds of race or sex. Incredible. With Planned Parenthood operating 78% of their “clinics” in inner-city neighborhoods, and African Americans constituting 12% of the nation but having 37% [...]
Sebelius’ Sensible Decision
Posted in Abortion, Birth Control, Dignity, tagged Family Health International, FDA, NPR, Plan B, Sebelius on December 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The recent overruling of the FDA decision to sell Plan B over the counter (OTC) to children as young as eleven years of age has engendered no small amount of outrage by proponents of the FDA plan, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has come in for severe criticism from women’s health and advocacy groups. Setting [...]
Newt Clears the Air
Posted in Abortion, Dignity on December 6, 2011 | 13 Comments »
This evening, I received the following communication from Newt Gingrich’s communications director, which I believe clears the air and provides Mr. Gingrich with a way forward: Hi Gerard, Dan forwarded me your email. To be clear, Newt believes that human life begins at conception, that is, at the moment of fertilization. Does this help clarify? [...]
The Gingrich Campaign’s Reply
Posted in Abortion, Dignity, tagged Life, Newt Gingrich on December 5, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Last week, presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made the following statement in an interview with Jake Tapper: “I think that if you take a position when a woman has fertilized egg and that’s been successfully implanted that now you’re dealing with life,” he added. “Because otherwise you’re going to open up an extraordinary range of very [...]
Does Conception Begin at Life?
Posted in Abortion, Dignity on December 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »
UPDATE 12/5/11: The Gingrich Campaign responded. I’m not entirely sold on the response. Check it out. That title isn’t a mistake. It’s the question that Newt Gingrich’s comments to Jake Tapper have brought into sharp relief. When the Speaker said that we have life at implantation, he stepped on a land mine. I’m awaiting his [...]
Declaration on Procured Abortion (III): The Church’s Prophetic Vision of Medical Developments and Moral Obligations
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Declaration on Procured Abortion on August 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We continue our study today of a little-known and little-studied 1974 document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith entitled: Declaration on Procured Abortion Read Part I here. Read Part II here. Today we turn our attention to the prophetic voice of the document, with commentary to follow: 17. Scientific progress is [...]
Declaration on Procured Abortion (II): The Church on the Infusion of the Soul and Life’s Beginnings
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Church Fathers, Declaration on Procured Abortion, Didache, Gaudium st spes on August 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We continue our study today of a little-known and little-studied 1974 document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith entitled: Declaration on Procured Abortion Read Part I here. Today we turn to the document’s treatment of the Church’s varied voices on when the body is infused with a soul. This is critical, [...]
Declaration On Procured Abortion (I)
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Declaration on Procured Abortion, Pope Paul VI on August 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
There is a little-known and little-studied document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith entitled: Declaration on Procured Abortion In my reading of proabort arguments and pre-life rejoinders, it has become evident that most Catholics are not armed with the truths and rejoinders in this document. We’ll spend a few posts looking [...]
Catholic Hospital in Colorado Won’t Fire Abortionist
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, Uncategorized on July 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Dr. Richard Grossman is the longest serving physician with privileges at Mercy Regional Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Durango, run by Englewood, CO’s Catholic Health Initiatives. Dr. Grossman is at his hospital office one day per week. When he’s not there, he spends 1-2 days per week working at the local Planned Parenthood as [...]
Sacrificial Love
Posted in Abortion, Dignity, tagged Letter to Sarah, Sullivan Ballou on July 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »
We are now in the 150th Anniversary of the events of the United States Civil War, of which I have been a devoted student for many years. Many have drawn striking parallels between the abolitionist movement and the pro-life movement, myself among them. From time to time over the coming months, I’ll be revisiting some [...]
Eugenics: “As Long as it’s Healthy….”
Posted in Abortion, Eugenics, tagged Abortion, Eugenics, Thomas Jefferson on July 27, 2011 | 19 Comments »
When Regina was pregnant with our three children, people would ask if it was a boy or a girl. When I responded with, “We don’t know,” I was met with the ubiquitous, iniquitous, mindless, and moronic refrain: “As long as it’s healthy.” I would challenge this well-intentioned, ill-thought well-wish with: “If it isn’t, we’ll love [...]
