A commenter in the comboxes believes Margaret Sanger to be misunderstood, and that we would all do well to follow the lead of her disciples at New York University. Mike Wallace interviewed Margaret Sanger 9/21/57. Watch the video here. Sanger really starts fidgeting, ducking and weaving, telling lies and conveniently forgetting in the second half [...]
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Margaret Sanger: Watch Her Interview With Mike Wallace
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, Birth Control, Condoms, Dignity, Eugenics, Family, Fathers of the Church, Margaret Sanger, Motherhood, Personhood, Planned Parenthood, Right to Life, Sex Education, tagged Contraception, Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, Mike Wallace, Planned Parenthooh, Right to Life on December 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Saint Stephen’s Martyrdom and the Pro-Life Cause
Posted in Dignity, Fathers of the Church, Personhood, Right to Life on December 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Today is the Feast of the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen. For speaking truth, for bearing witness to Jesus, Stephen was stoned to death. Saul of Tarsus, prize student of the great Rabbi Gamaliel, stood by and approved. He can be seen standing with stony approval to the right in the painting. We know what happened [...]
Christmas Meditation on Our Dignity
Posted in Advent, Christmas, Dignity, Family, Fathers of the Church, Personhood, tagged Christmas, Dignity, Pope St. Leo the Great, Song of the Angels on December 22, 2009 |
From the Liturgy of the Hours, Christmas Day, Office of Readings A sermon of Pope St Leo the Great Christian, remember your dignity Dearly beloved, today our Saviour is born; let us rejoice. Sadness should have no place on the birthday of life. The fear of death has been swallowed up; life brings us joy [...]
Ireland Supreme Court Rules Unborn Children Not Persons in Fertility Clinic Case
Posted in Personhood, tagged abortafacient, Embryo, in vitro fertilization, Ireland, IVF, Parental Rights, Personhod on December 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Perhaps if the Justices in Ireland had read George and Tollefsen’s monumental, yet very readable work, Embryo: A defense of Human Life, they would have avoided handing down their recent catastrophic decision. In ruling that human embryos are not human persons, the justices have decided that personhood is not an essential, intrinsic attribute of being, [...]
