From the Los Angeles Times: In a move that some called historic, the county’s oldest African American civil rights group voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage. The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People passed a resolution supporting gay marriage at a meeting of its board of directors in Miami, saying it opposed any [...]
Archive for the ‘Dignity’ Category
Descent Into Hell: NAACP Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
Posted in Black History Month, Dignity, Uncategorized, tagged NAACP, Same-Sex Marriage on May 21, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Divided Motherhood in the Age of Discovery
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Bishops, Dignity, Motherhood on May 13, 2012 | 10 Comments »
The twentieth century saw the greatest advances made in science, technology, and medicine that the world has ever known. Building on the conceptual discoveries of the previous three centuries, we have wrought wonders unimagined in every decade of that century, and continue on unabated in this new century and new millennium. If there has been [...]
Chen Guangcheng and Reggie Littlejohn
Posted in Abortion, Dignity on May 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
About a year ago I met Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. Reggie, an attorney, has been actively and doggedly engaged in efforts to stop forced abortions and forced sterilizations in China, making frequent trips to meet with our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. The pro-life blogosphere and wider community have [...]
Obama, Same-Sex Marriage, and Bioethical Fallout
Posted in Dignity on May 9, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Today, President Obama threw his support behind same-sex marriage. Thank God! The mask is off, six months before the election and about a year since he announced that he was willfully violating his Oath of Office by ordering the Justice Department to cease defending the law in court. Specifically, he ordered an end to defending [...]
Bioethics: Possible Roles of Guilt and Shame in Fueling the Culture of Death
Posted in Dignity, Lent, Uncategorized on April 6, 2012 | 8 Comments »
“We become what we think we are.” That was the constant admonition of my life’s mentor, Father Luke McCann. Luke was genius, and constantly ahead of the curve by 20 years in everything. As with so much he taught me, I am still unpacking the depth of it all almost twenty years later. “We become [...]
The Metastatic Cancer in Obstetric Medicine
Posted in Abortion, Dignity on March 28, 2012 | 12 Comments »
The following is a story by Michael P. Farris, Esq., the founder and chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. It isn’t a story about home schooling. It’s about the metastatic cancer that has crept into obstetric medicine. When OB/Gyn’s perform abortions with routine, they need to callous themselves in order to preserve themselves. [...]
‘Decrease in Human Beings Will Cover Cost of Contraception Mandate,’ Claims Sebelius
Posted in Birth Control, Dignity, tagged Contraception, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius on March 2, 2012 | 19 Comments »
Yesterday at a Congressional hearing, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made two outrageous claims: From CNSNews.com During the subcommittee hearing, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) said that contraception provided by insurance companies to people employed by religious organizations under the future form of the rule Sebelius described would not be was not free. “Who pays for it? [...]
Retreating from Komen with Cardinal Ratzinger
Posted in Bishops, Dignity, tagged Dictatorship of Relativism, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Komen on February 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a blistering and draining week with the Komen story. As tomorrow’s Gospel tells us, Jesus often withdrew to prayer and solitude, and so am I today. Time for a retreat weekend. Here is an outstanding homily given by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the eve of his election to the Chair of Peter. It [...]
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.” [...]
From Pretty to Slavery
Posted in Dignity, tagged Pat Archbold, Death of Pretty, olivia newton john, national catholic register on December 30, 2011 | 12 Comments »
Pat Archbold at the National Catholic Register writes on the Death of Pretty: This post is intended as a lament of sorts, a lament for something in the culture that is dying and may never been seen again. Pretty, pretty is dying. People will define pretty differently. For the purposes of this piece, I define [...]
Major Conscience Protections Victory: UMDNJ Nurses Don’t Have to Perform Abortions
Posted in Dignity, tagged Alliance Defense Fund, Bioethics Defense Fund, Conscience Protections, Dorinda Bordlee, Matt Bowman, Natural Law, Nkolas Nikas, Nuremberg, Nurses, UMDNJ on December 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A major victory yesterday for conscience protections. From LifeSite News: Thu Dec 22 7:53 PM EST NEWARK, New Jersey, December 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a triumph for conscience protections, a New Jersey hospital agreed that nurses will not have to assist with abortions if doing so would violate their moral or religious views. Twelve [...]
Incest Principal: ‘No Children Complained’
Posted in Dignity, tagged Incest, Pep Rally, Rosemount High, Wallersheim on December 18, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Further thoughts on the incest-as-entertainment at Rosemount High that I blogged on earlier. The AP has a report on the incident with some pretty disturbing quotes from Principal Wallersheim, whose staff planned the event: “This activity was intended to be fun, but some found it offensive,” he wrote. “We apologize to anyone who was offended [...]
Abortion, IVF, and School-Sponsored Incest
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Dignity, tagged Incest, Pep Rally, Rosemount High School, Wollersheim on December 18, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Please bear with me on this one. It comes with a warning. This is gut-wrenching and nauseating, but needs to be aired. After having worked for seven years with teen prostitutes at Covenant House in the 1980′s, I honestly thought that I had seen it all. It’s tough to live with the memories of all [...]
Christopher Hitchens: Free At Last
Posted in Dignity, tagged anthropological perspectives, christian apologists, Christopher Hitchens, human civilization, navy commander, raid on dieppe, totalitarian belief on December 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday, Christopher Hitchens entered into eternity at age 62. The celebrated atheist succumbed to pneumonia, which was a complication associated with his esophageal cancer. If Hitchens did great harm by his atheism, it is also certainly true that his atheism was the rhetorical wet stone used by a generation of Christian apologists. Among the positions [...]
