on the occasion of the March for Life

on the occasion of the march for life, here is a repost from September 2008 of a survivor of an attempt to end her life: here is a clip of a talk by a young lady who survived an attempt on her life and lived to tell the tale (albeit with scars). Makes for an [...]

Roe v. Wade @37

37 years ago the Supreme Court issued its opinion legalizing abortion by fiat nationwide. That legally unsupportable seizure of state police authority remains in effect today, but there are increasing signs of cracks in the abortion on demand edifice. Science and technology have marched ahead. 4d ultrasound and better resolution on regular ultrasound show any [...]

Kay Bailey Hutchison on abortion

just now at the debate, Senator Hutchison ducked the question on whether she supports Roe v. Wade or not. She does. She has been explicit about her strong support for it in the past. Here she is in 1993: UPDATE: From Texas Alliance for Life [I]n 2003, [Hutchison] voted for a resolution that stated “‘It [...]

a change of heart

interesting story of the conversion of a planned parenthood center director from providing abortions to pro-life. Probably everybody has seen this already, but just in case you haven’t, here it is. hat tip to just about everybody that I normally read.

abortion as genocide

Margaret Sanger and her monstrous eugenic aspirations for abortion on demand appear to be bearing fruit. Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2005, the latest year for which the abortion numbers are available. Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in [...]

Another hard one

Stand to Reason Blog found a place on the net called “The Abortioneers” which has since disappeared but remains visible in Google cache. Here is the paper abstract and information. the article by L Harris is very interesting stuff. she acknowledges her deep ambivalence at performing abortions: To reflect seriously on the question of how [...]

the mechanics of a D&X

courtesy of Vitamin Z here is the deposition testimony of Dr. Carhart from the University of Nebraska about the particulars of his method of abortion. Just read it, if you can, but I warn you that it is deeply disturbing.  This must stop.  there is more at the link above if you really want to [...]

powerful stuff

Timmy Brister posted this video “Choosing Thomas” and like he says it is worth the next ten minutes of your time. somewhat related, Randy Alcorn talks here about the absolute necessity for Christians to have a well developed theology of suffering to avoid falling into serious error when something like the events in the video [...]

condescension in action.

just wow. watch this if you haven’t seen it already. I have been hearing about it for a few days, but only just now watched it. this is much worse than when she told the General to call her “senator” instead of maam. I really hope the people in CA are watching this buffoon embarrass [...]

raising money for an abortion

Mark Hemingway links to something that is bizarre, sad, and completely expected if you think about it. This is the story of a young woman’s decision to have an abortion and to throw a baby shower like party to gather donations with which to pay for it. It is interesting to see that the author, [...]

talking about talking about abortion

Dr. Mohler writes about Barack Obama’s visit to Notre Dame this past weekend and the speech he gave at commencement. Mr. Obama went on to call for “Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words.” In the end, the President’s comments were entirely about how Americans should discuss or debate abortion. There was no serious consideration of [...]

new polling on abortion

these are some very interesting numbers. A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves “pro-life” on the issue of abortion and 42% “pro-choice.” This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995. ….. The May 2009 [...]

Government control

I really don’t want to be or to come across like one of those black helicopter conspiracy theory nuts, but we have been down this road of unfettered Federal government control before. It was not pretty then and it will be less so now due to the lack of the restraining hand of a shared [...]

16 million missing Chinese girls

A demographic time bomb is ticking in the far east. here is the horrible truth in dry medical journal language: Conclusions In 2005 males under the age of 20 exceeded females by more than 32 million in China, and more than 1.1 million excess births of boys occurred. China will see very high and steadily [...]

Is Obama Pro-Choice?

not for doctors, he’s not. In fact, when it comes to doctors, President Obama believes they should not have the choice to refuse to perform abortions. “By his rule issued today, President Obama is utterly refusing to enforce these conscience protection laws, resulting in a situation where doctors may be forced to participate in abortions [...]

two from Big Hollywood

From Andrew Breitbart’s new project (an answer to the Huffington Post), Big Hollywood come two interesting pieces to read this weekend. The first from Gary Graham (warning some language at the link) says in part: No. I’m going to say it. I’m going to say what millions know in the front of their brains, and [...]

legislating morality

Kevin DeYoung has a post up on his blog about why he believes it is not only permissible but necessary to legislate morality in the case of abortion. First he makes the point that I was making to Jesurgislac in comments to this post. This point is that if the unborn fetus is human, you [...]

hard to face but real

Ok, there is an event that occurred that has to be faced even though it is horrible. Benjamin linked to the news story in his comment to this post. The quick summary is that a woman went to have an abortion of a 23 week old baby. The clinic messed up. A live baby girl [...]

Making it plausible or unthinkable

Al Mohler has completed posting a six part series on abortion which is the edited transcript of the sermon he gave on Sanctity of Life Sunday. excellent message excellently presented. here are the links to the parts for some weekend reading. part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 and here [...]

different perspectives

from Vitamin Z, here is John Piper pointing out the difference in perspectives.

discussion

I don’t how many of you have noticed the discussion that has been going on in comments to this post, but I encourage everyone to take some time and go check it out. I have a some questions though for everybody: Is pregnancy and childbirth the same thing as giving up a kidney for another [...]

Barack Obama’s view of women

Our new president has already come out strongly for killing babies and using our tax dollars to fund the killing. here is his statement in connection with his reversal of the Mexico City Policy: On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are reminded that this decision not only protects women’s health and reproductive [...]

Roe v. Wade @36 part 5

John Piper quoting Abraham Lincoln. On January 12, 2009 Samantha Heiges, age 23, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for drowning her newborn in Burnsville, Minnesota. If she had arranged for a doctor to kill the child a few weeks earlier she would be a free woman. What are the differences between this child [...]

Roe v. Wade @36 part 4 “making it unthinkable”

Challies has a guest post from John Ensor today. Well worth reading the whole thing. ….I acknowledge the resistance, even offense, taken by many by asserting that abortion is the moral issue of our day. I am familiar with the claim that asserts equal concern for poverty, global warming, aids prevention, war, and more. All [...]

Roe v. Wade @36 part 3

Yuval Levin points to a speech by Professor Robbert P. George on the occasion of this anniversary. Go read it. In the name of a generalized “right to privacy” allegedly implicit in the Due Process Clause of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, seven justices created a license to kill the unborn. These men probably had no [...]