#UnplannedParenthood and a chicken-and-egg question
Which came first: the chicken or the egg? (Apparently, the egg, insofar as we’ve learned that dinosaurs laid eggs which, bit-by-bit, became chickens. But that’s beside the point.) Which came first:...
View ArticleFour challenges with #DefundPP
1) Is contraception “(medically-necessary) health care” or a wholly separate consumer-product category of drugs and devices, some of which are FDA-regulated because of their potential side-effects?...
View ArticleIf you’re Singerian about “personhood” will even the latest video perturb you?
If you’ve been following any of the major conservative news sites or blogs (but not the newspapers who have decided there’s nothing newsworthy), or have an equivalent twitter feed, you’ve seen that the...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood: the media’s chosen their side
As you know if you’ve been following the reports on the Center for Medical Progress’s expose of Planned Parenthood, they have released multiple videos now, each more awful than the prior one. The most...
View ArticleDon’t defund Planned Parenthood – dismember them
Figuratively, of course. But it’s kind of fitting, isn’t it? Planned Parenthood’s abortion providers dismember unborn babies. And that’s precisely the solution to the current debate about Planned...
View ArticleWhat do 113 female lawyers tell us about abortion and “abortion alternatives”?
I’d been meaning to write about this for a while. Two weeks ago, Slate.com published an article, “‘I Am an Attorney Because I Had an Abortion’: A powerful amicus brief to the Supreme Court is signed...
View ArticleA few thoughts on “pro-choice-ism”, and two analogies
Let’s start with this: The pro-abortion attitudes I cited back on Friday, and the demands that abortion be treated as a routine medical treatment, seem to be increasingly prevalent. It’s highly...
View ArticleSo what about early miscarriages, anyway?
So what about early miscarriages? You’ve heard that before – and it’s reappeared in comments on a prior blog post. It goes like this: large proportions of newly-conceived...
View ArticleSo about those hard cases . . .
Here’s what Chris Christie had to say at the latest GOP debate, as quoted by Time: “I believe that if a woman has been raped, that is a birth and a pregnancy that she should be able to terminate. If...
View ArticleF.A.Q. on late-term abortion
Well, my post yesterday was a bit of a bust. I was hoping to spur some discussion on the implications of supporting an R&I exception (either in law or in personal opinion of what’s right or...
View ArticleIn the news: fetal deformities, transplants, and the NHS
Here’s a report from LifeNews.com: “British Govt Encouraging Women to Give Birth to Disabled Babies to Harvest Their Organs.” The title pretty much sums it up: a group of transplant surgeons in the...
View ArticleNot Newsworthy in Illinois? Rauner destroys conscience protections
Last Friday, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law the Orwellianly-named Health Care Right of Conscience Act, which in fact strips away conscience rights with respect to abortion. You wouldn’t...
View ArticleObjecting to objection: Abortion in Italy
Just passing on a link to an article in the New York Times, “On Paper, Italy Allows Abortions, but Few Doctors Will Perform Them.” This was from back in January, but came across my twitter or facebook...
View ArticleThe Economist thinks it knows how to reduce abortion . . . eh, not so much
“How to Make Abortion Rarer” — that’s the title of an article in this week’s Economist. And — no surprise — their solution if for women everywhere to “see the light” and start using hormonal...
View ArticleCan you be a “pro-life feminist”? (warning: rant)
The folks at Feminists for Life certainly believe so. A group calling itself the New Pro-life Movement (which seems to exist only as a Facebook page and a loose collection of like-minded people,...
View ArticleBruce Rauner, Scorpion
That’s a folktale that shows up every now and again. It’s in the form of an Aesop fable, but not actually one. The short version of the tale (full version here) is that a scorpion asks a frog to carry...
View ArticleIn the news: more wins for abortion supporters
Meanwhile, while we’ve been arguing about whether or not the Covington kids were innocent, or guilty, or guilty of being white males and that’s enough for a conviction, Democrats in New York wasted no...
View ArticleSacrificing babies
To recap: in my prior post, I wrote about the new New York law, and the bill in Virginia whose sponsor, Del. Kathy Tran, confirmed that it would enable a doctor, without any second opinion, to perform...
View ArticleOn Baby Doe and Ralph Northam
In 1982, a child was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with a condition called a tracheoesophageal fistula, that is, a connection between the esophagus and the windpipe. This condition prevents an affected...
View ArticleWho are the real pro-lifers?
One reads a lot, these days, about what it means to be “pro-life” — and it usually goes something like this: People who merely believe abortion should be illegal, or that it is gravely morally wrong to...
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