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? [...]
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Newt Clears the Air
Posted in Abortion, Dignity on December 6, 2011 | 13 Comments »
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 [...]
Exorcists Shutting an Abortion Mill
Posted in Abortion, Priests, tagged Abortion, Exorcism, Priests, Rockford on July 25, 2011 | 19 Comments »
This is an interesting story, one showing the value of our priests, and the need for prayer in this spiritual war. It makes me wonder what would happen if the bishop tasked these priests with a full-time assignment at the mill. The following is from Catholic Online: NASHVILLE,TN (Catholic Online) –“And how can men preach [...]
Letter to Ann
Posted in Abortion, Dignity on July 23, 2011 | 25 Comments »
From the comments section on another post: A reader named Ann left the following comment for me on another post. It is fraught with ambivalence and the attempt to convince herself that she is indeed a good person who promoted love and understanding, while supporting other’s choices in having abortions. This is not an issue [...]
Abortions Per Day: U.S.; 4,000 China; 35,000
Posted in Abortion, tagged Abortion, China, One Child Policy, Reggie Littlejohn, Women's Rights Without Fronteirs on July 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Part of my mission with this blog is to introduce and promote people who are doing great work that many might not have heard of. Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers is just such a person. She has a powerful new video with numbers and a story that simply beggar the imagination. As [...]
Planned Parenthood Abortion v. Adoption Referrals
Posted in Abortion, Planned Parenthood on July 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The picture tells the story. These are the people who, along with NARAL, are attacking Crisis Pregnancy Centers all over the nation. Saving babies is bad for business. A ten year-old girl has seen right through these people, as only children can. Click here for the eloquence of a young girl’s purity. . . . [...]
Pro-abort’s Lies
Posted in Abortion, Planned Parenthood on July 11, 2011 | 48 Comments »
As I was preparing dinner, my ten year old, Elizabeth Marie, approached and shared with me what she would write if she had a popular blog like mine. So, I sat her down to the blog and told her to write it up, that she would be Coming Home’s first guest blogger. The Spirit is [...]
Abortion at Planned Parenthood, By the Numbers
Posted in Abortion on July 7, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Here are Planned Parenthood’s own numbers. They reflect their activity in the abortion arena. As one can see, they are increasingly invested in performing this gruesome procedure. Baby Boomers: These are the children who never were born, who will never pay the taxes we’ll need to sustain us in our retirement; these and the others [...]
