12-year-old Canadian girl makes anti-abortion speech for school contest despite criticism
February 23, 2009
Chelsea Schilling, WorldNetDaily (HT: Suzanne Hadley, Boundless):
An Overview of Abortion / 2-minute pixelized version (video)
February 12, 2009
‘I don’t understand. The mother went to get an abortion, but now is suing because the doctor killed her baby?’
February 6, 2009
Gene Veith reacts to a recent news story about a badly-botched abortion
UK couple refuses doctors’ pleas to abort their conjoined twins
January 30, 2009
Obama signs order ending ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions
January 26, 2009
‘Living on its own is not the criterion of human personhood, as we know from the use of respirators and dialysis’ among John Piper’s ‘15 Pro-life Truths to Speak’
January 26, 2009
Four Reasons You Might Be Aborted: An Open Letter to Fetal Humans
January 23, 2009
By Joe Carter
To my fellow humans who are entering that most precarious stage of human development.
Let me begin by congratulating you on making it through the embryonic stage. Too many of our fellow humans don’t even make it as far as you have now. Many died of natural causes. Others were cut down prior to implantation by an abortifacient. Still others are trapped in the freezers of IVF clinics, in suspended animation awaiting their fate.
You have made it to the second stage of life. But you’re not out of the woods, as they say, until you’re out of the womb. In America there are roughly 250 abortions for every 1000 live births, which means that you have (all other things being equal) a 1 in 5 chance of still being aborted. Here are 4 reasons you might be aborted and what you can do to avoid this gruesome fate.
Thousands attend March for Life rally in DC
January 22, 2009
Life: Imagine the Potential
January 21, 2009
(HT: Denny Burk)
‘Obama is considering issuing an executive order to reverse a controversial Bush administration abortion policy in his first week in office’
January 21, 2009
CNN (HT: Owen Strachan)
Up with Rick
December 23, 2008
Two commendatory commentaries on the Rick Warren/Obama inauguration:
John Mark Reynolds writes ‘Rick Warren: A Public Educator Worthy of Honor’ at The Scriptorium:
“Rick Warren refuses to bow to the thoughtless assumptions of the American right or the American left. He flays the comfortable in both camps …”
And Justin Wise writes, “God bless Barack Obama for reaching out to Rick Warren. God bless Rick Warren for reaching out to Obama.”
Warren Piece
December 19, 2008
The blogosphere is abuzz with reactions to the announcement that Saddleback pastor/Purpose-Driven Life author/lightning rod Rick Warren will pray at Obama’s swearing-in:
“One thing is clear– controversial appointments and actions do indeed smoke out people’s real views and feelings, and often those feelings are subChristian at best, and positively carnal at worst.”
“I have issues with Warren theologically and ecclesiastically, but am in broad sympathy with much of his politics and so it was interesting to see him clobbered as too right wing for a change.”
“I will give our new president major credit if he still lets Rick Warren say the prayer.”
“I’d like to ask Mr. Warren how civil it is to cut up a pre-born baby with a knife and hurl out the parts with the trash?”
“Whatever you think of Warren, make no mistake: he’s a social conservative, my favorite kind.”
“I am not throwing Rick Warren to the wolves over this. He now finds himself in a whirlwind, and he will not be the last.”
Jordan Ballor also has a more in-depth wrap-up and discussion of the announcement, at the Acton Powerblog.
Protestants should pay attention to Catholic policy on life
December 16, 2008
… says Gene Veith:
“We non-Catholics tend to not care about pronouncements from the Vatican, but this is one we could find useful. Interestingly, Roman Catholic ethics these days is based not on supernatural revelations from the papal authority but on reason and the natural law.”
Neuhaus sees heightened conflict between church and culture in years ahead
November 14, 2008
Richard John Neuhaus has posted an essay (The Coming Kulturkampf) at First Things: On the Square in which he asserts that Obama’s expansion of abortion rights will necessitate (and perhaps bring) resistance from both Catholics and Protestants:
“The Church is much more disposed toward conversion, providing moral guidance, and the transformation of culture. The Christ against culture model is never chosen, but sometimes there is no choice.”
Another post-election reflection
November 6, 2008
Black independent conservative La Shawn Barber isn’t mincing words:
“As long as families (the foundation of society) are in shambles, conditions won’t improve much. But with Obama in office, white liberals can feel good about themselves and blacks can feel proud, fatherless children and dead babies be damned.”
Read her post, “Barack Obama’s Post-Racial Delusion.”
